Poway Chabad granted security grant one month before attack

Rabbi Simcha Backman, who oversees security grants for more than 200 area Chabads told AP that, “Obviously, we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet.”

A makeshift memorial was placed by a light pole a block away from a shooting incident where one person was killed at the Congregation Chabad synagogue in Poway, north of San Diego, California.

(photo credit: JOHN GASTALDO/REUTERS)

ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

MAY 5, 2019 12:39

Poway Chabad granted security grant one month before attack

Rabbi Simcha Backman, who oversees security grants for more than 200 area Chabads told AP that, “Obviously, we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet.”

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Poway Chabad granted security grant one month before attack

Rabbi Simcha Backman, who oversees security grants for more than 200 area Chabads told AP that, “Obviously, we did not have a chance to start using the funds yet.”

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