The Jewish Telegraphic Agency website reports today (January 9, 2011) that U.S. Rep. Gabriel Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot in the head yesterday at a Tucson, Arizona shopping mall, was the victim of an anti-Semitic man who was a loner. The first Jewish congresswoman from Arizona remains in critical condition today, after undergoing surgery yesterday at University Medical Center in Tucson.
Jared Lee Loughner, 22, who has been charged with wounding Giffords and killing six people in the mall shooting, reportedly listed "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle," a book written by Adolf Hitler) and Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto" as two of his favorite books on his MySpace Internet page.
Giffords, 40, was raised "mixed" by a Christian Scientist mother and a Jewish father, but decided to be "Jewish only" following a visit to Israel in 2001.
She attended religious services at a Tucson Reform synagogue.
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