Obama has personal connection to Jewish center shootings

[Yahoo! News]

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President Obama called on Americans to “stand united” against religious-based violence, following the shooting deaths Sunday of three people at two Jewish centers near Kansas City, Kan. “We have to keep coming together across faiths to combat the ignorance and intolerance, including anti-Semitism, that can lead to hatred and to violence, because we’re all children of God,” Mr. Obama said Monday at the annual Easter prayer breakfast at the White House. In his remarks, Obama noted a personal connection to two of the victims, a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather, who were shot outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City in Overland Park, Kan. The boy, Reat Underwood, and his grandfather, William Corporon, were members of a church whose minister played a role in Obama’s second inauguration.

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