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Music A Song for the Victims
Within hours of today’s terrorist attack on the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood, Israeli singer Amir Benayoun had already written, produced and released a new song about the killing of four Jewish worshipers by Palestinians. The popular musician, who sings in Hebrew and Arabic, has a history of responding to political…
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Breaking News Friends Recall 3 Americans Slain in Jerusalem Synagogue Attack
(Reuters) — Family and friends remembered three U.S.-born rabbis slain in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday, praising one as the scion of his Boston family’s rabbinical dynasty and another as “one of the kindest souls” in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. As tributes poured in for the victims of the gun and meat cleaver attack,…
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Breaking News Thousands Mourn Synagogue Terror Victim Rabbi Moshe Twersky
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews swayed in prayer at the funeral of U.S.-Israeli rabbi Moshe Twersky, a descendant of two rabbinical dynasties who was killed on Tuesday alongside three other rabbis in a Palestinian attack on a synagogue. Family, friends and admirers of Twersky, whose father was a pre-eminent Jewish scholar, expressed disbelief as they addressed…
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Opinion Was Synagogue Terrorist Attack Revenge for Abu Khdeir Killing?
Getty Images In the wake of the terrorist attack that claimed four lives in Jerusalem’s formerly peaceful Har Nof neighborhood, some are speculating that the bloodbath may have been meant as revenge for the murder of Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir by Jewish extremists in July. The father of Yosef Haim Ben-David, the main suspect…
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Breaking News President Obama Condemns Jerusalem Synagogue Terror Attack
President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the attack by two Palestinians on a synagogue in Jerusalem that killed four people, including three Americans, and called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to lower tensions and seek peace. “I strongly condemn today’s terrorist attack on worshipers at a synagogue in Jerusalem,” Obama said in a statement. “There…
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Breaking News Moshe Twersky, Grandson of Joseph Soloveichik, Among Jerusalem Synagogue Victims
Rabbi Moshe Twersky has been identified as one of the four people killed in a Jerusalem synagogue during morning services. Twersky, 60, was the son of rabbi and author Rabbi Yitzhak Twersky of Boston, grandson of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, a founder of Modern Orthodoxy known as The Rav. He was the dean of the…
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News Bloody Synagogue Attack Shatters Calm in Tranquil West Jerusalem
Kehilat Bnei Torah was supposed to be in a safe place, even in the most contested of cities. The synagogue where two Palestinian terrorists killed four worshippers in a gun-and-knife bloodbath is in the picture-postcard West Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof, miles away from the tense seam line that divides the Holy City. “I am…
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Breaking News 4 Hacked and Shot to Death in Jerusalem Synagogue Bloodbath
(Reuters) — Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city. Three of the victims held dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and the fourth man was a British-Israeli national, police…
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