It’s been seven years since Scott Nussinow became the chair of a new safety and security committee at Temple Shalom, a Jewish synagogue in Auburn, and started thinking of ways to make the congregation safer. The committee formally launched after a shooting at a California synagogue on the last day of Passover in 2019, not long after 11 people were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history.
Another such attack occurred last week in Michigan, when a man rammed a car into a synagogue before dying during a gunfire exchange with two security guards inside.
