"The darkest hour in our city's history"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 29 October 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Hate crimes seem to be escalating in America. This podcast examines the motives behind such violence and offers three biblical responses. For more news discerned differently, or to receive the Daily Article via email, please visit denisonforum.org.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily article for Monday, October 29, 2018. |
| 0:07.5 | Please listen as I read these names slowly. |
| 0:10.3 | Bernice and Sylvan Simon, brother Cecil and David Rosenthal, Rose Malinger, Joyce Feinberg, |
| 0:16.9 | Richard Godfried, Jerry Rabenevitz, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax, and Irving Younger. |
| 0:25.9 | Their lives were taken from them Saturday morning as they gathered to worship at a Pittsburgh |
| 0:29.9 | synagogue. Some 2,500 people gathered yesterday at a memorial service for them, responding to what |
| 0:36.1 | the mayor called the darkest hour in our city's |
| 0:38.6 | history. Robert Bowers, the man accused of killing them in a shooting rampage, is due in court today. |
| 0:45.7 | This was the third hate crime in America last week. Last Wednesday, Gregory Bush allegedly tried to |
| 0:51.8 | enter a predominantly black church in Jefferson Town, Kentucky, |
| 0:55.3 | just outside of Louisville. The doors were locked, so he went to a nearby Kroger store |
| 0:59.5 | where he allegedly killed two people, both African American. The first victim was Maurice Stallard, |
| 1:05.5 | age 69, who was with his 12-year-old grandson buying a poster board for a school project. |
| 1:11.5 | The second was Vicki Jones, age 67, who was killed in the parking lot as Bush left. |
| 1:17.0 | Bush has a history of mental illness and made racist threats in the past. |
| 1:21.3 | On Friday, a 56-year-old Florida man named Caesar Sayyalk was arrested after federal authorities |
| 1:26.7 | said he mailed a total of 14 packages |
| 1:29.2 | containing pipe bombs. He was known for condemning Democratic Party leaders on social media. |
| 1:34.7 | The next day, 11 people were killed and six others injured, including four police officers, |
| 1:39.9 | when a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire inside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, |
| 1:45.5 | Pennsylvania. According to a federal law enforcement official, the alleged gunman had frequently |
| 1:50.7 | posted his hatred for Jews on social media. What motivates such seemingly senseless violence? |
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