Murdered in cold blood: Jonathan Sandler and his two sons, six-year-old Aryeh (left) and Gavriel, three (right) were all killed by the moped-riding gunman outside Ozar Hatorah schook, in Toulouse
Rabbi Jonathan Sandler, 30, was killed on March 19, 2012 in the Toulouse shooting, France.
Rabbi dies with two sons, Aryeh, aged six, and Gavriel, aged three, leaving behind wife and four-year-old daughter.
Jonathan Sandler, 30, was killed Monday in a shooting that took place in Toulouse, France. Born in Paris, he spent his life studying Torah and working in Jewish community outreach. Sandler was father to two sons, Aryeh, aged six, and Gavriel, aged three, who were also killed in the attack. Sandler is survived by his wife and four-year-old daughter.
As a child, Sandler was sent to school in Toulouse. When he finished, he went to study in a yeshiva in Jerusalem, where he continued to live for three years. Four-and-a-half years ago, Sandler went back to France and got married. Following that, he returned to Jerusalem, and lived in Jerusalem's Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood.
Sandler studied at Kollel Zichron Shimon, preparing young French students to become rabbis and teachers. Like many graduates of the school, Sandler went with his family last September to work in a Jewish community in France, where they settled in Toulouse.
Sandler was well known in France's Jewish community for his column in a French Jewish newspaper. His column focused on outreach with secular Jews and theological questions. Sandler also performed outreach work with secular Jews as a volunteer for the organization, "Shoresh," which works in community outreach.
Aharon Getz, a friend of Sandler's said the father of three was a "delightful ma," adding that "He had a wonderful connection with his fellow students and the communities in which he worked."
On behalf of her wife, please remove all pictures. I think we owe her that at least...
ReplyDeleteThis is so sad. I have no word to express the pain I feel, I am thinking about his wife and daughter and wonder how do you survive after a such tragedy?
ReplyDeleteThis is horrific and an example of extremism
ReplyDeletethat must be addressed always.
tragic. We MUST take her words to heart......learn to understand what she calls the Fear of Heaven, and love our children. Nothing is more precious. Every single person who has a child has an opportunity to help that child be precious and good and wise and active in activities and endeavors of goodness.
ReplyDeletenobody will say that this does not hurt. this is tragic and painful to all who care about life. the current world, the world which has little connection to what a Creator of the world is, one that believes that the concept of Evil is from story-books, should now wake up and understand that the world is not what the television portrays it to be. Our parents and grandparents should teach proper understanding of the world, not the television and the 98 percent lying media.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, Jonathan was a wonderful young man, father and rabbi, teacher.
ReplyDeleteThe WORLD needs to have a face to recognize for this horrific crime of genocide and to identify that he and his young children are human, not some false image projected by the Jihad based on the false teachings, brainwashing and scapegoating of Jews by their schools and governments trying to draw attention away from their own hoarding of goods and moneys and impoverishment of their peoples.
In spite of our respect for G-d's law, we MUST bring such crimes to the NON-JEWISH PUBLIC with names, faces, and vital information about who these persons were, and are still.
Were it possible, I would do so for the millions who died in such places as Auschwitz. The NON-JEWISH PUBLIC NEEDS to know that those killed were like their next door neighbor, their own uncle, and grandparent, their own children, and their own friends... Otherwise there lacks conscience about the killings in our desensitized societies around the world, and there becomes a lack of identification with the victims as human beings and as being very much alike with the very friends and relatives that the NON-JEWISH PUBIC so relish.
I think Avi would want her husband remembered for his goodness, accmplishments and enduring commitment to being Jewish and to life: L'Chaim! in general. That her children and husband's enduring memory should be able to help us strengthen our resolve and that of the NON-JEWISH PUBLIC to bring about an end to Jihadism and Islamist Hate!