Highland Park’s Jewish community responds to deadly shooting

A local synagogue teacher was among one of the seven people killed in Monday’s mass shooting.

By Claire Hyman, Meha Ahmad
Highland Park shooting bystanders
People look at the Highland Park police department after Robert E. Crime III was taken into custody after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb on Monday, July 4, 2022. Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press
Highland Park shooting bystanders
People look at the Highland Park police department after Robert E. Crime III was taken into custody after a mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade in downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb on Monday, July 4, 2022. Nam Y. Huh/Associated Press

Highland Park’s Jewish community responds to deadly shooting

A local synagogue teacher was among one of the seven people killed in Monday’s mass shooting.

By Claire Hyman, Meha Ahmad
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Police haven’t identified a motive for Monday’s mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park. But the violence has sent shockwaves through the suburb’s large Jewish community.

Reset checks in with a rabbi and a resident from the area.

GUESTS: David Goldenberg, ADL Midwest Regional Director

Rabbi Evan Moffic, rabbi of Makom Solel Lakeside