Rabbi recalls friend in synagogue shooting: 'Lori took the bullet for all of us'

The rabbi froze in the lobby of his synagogue, startled by the stranger in sunglasses pointing a rifle at him. As the shots zoomed toward him, he raised his hands in defense before scrambling to gather the young children nearby and move them somewhere safe.

“Miraculously, the gun jammed,” said Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, speaking with bandaged hands at an emotionally charged news conference outside Chabad of Poway on Sunday, a day after the shooting.

A congregant, an Army veteran, chased after the shooter, but he managed to get away, Goldstein...