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Opinion What Gay Pride Parade Stabber Has in Common With His Victims
I wish Yishai Schlissel, the perpetrator of the crime at Thursday’s Jerusalem gay pride parade, had paused for a moment to first speak to the marchers. If he did, he would have realized how much he had in common with them. I know Schlissel. Not personally, but I know the personality. I grew up in…
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Breaking News 16-Year-Old Stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade Dies of Wounds
A 16-year-old victim of the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade stabbing attack has died. Shira Banki died Sunday afternoon at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, where she had been fighting for her life after being stabbed in the chest and stomach. Her family agreed to donate her organs, Hadassah announced. “The murder at the pride…
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Breaking News Gay Pride Parade Stabbing Victim Still Fighting for Her Life
One of the victims of the stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride parade is still fighting for her life. The 16-year-old girl is in very critical condition at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, according to reports. She was stabbed in the chest and stomach. Yishai Schlissel, a haredi Orthodox man from Modiin Ilit…
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Breaking News How Israel Police Allowed Gay Pride Stabber To Strike Again
The stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s gay pride parade on Thursday was the result of a failure by police intelligence. Jerusalem police admit that they knew Yishai Schlissel was released from prison in June after serving 10 years in Ma’asiyahu prison for a similar stabbing attack at the 2005 Jerusalem Gay Pride parade, where he wounded…
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Opinion The Ultra-Orthodox Hatred Behind the Stabbing at Jerusalem Gay Pride
If a community’s respected religious leaders preach, over and over again, that gay people deserve to be killed, isn’t it inevitable that someone will try to kill them? That’s one of the lessons from today’s stabbing of six people at the Jerusalem Pride Parade. Of course, it was also the lesson ten years ago at…
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Breaking News Ultra-Orthodox Attacker Stabs 6 at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade
An Orthodox Jewish assailant stabbed and injured six participants of an annual Gay Pride march in Jerusalem on Thursday, police and witnesses said. Police reportedly said a suspect is the same man who was convicted of a similar attack in 2005 and was recently freed from prison, the Times of Israel reported. It was the…
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Opinion We’ve Heard Enough Rabbis on Gay Marriage. Now, We Need a Rebbe.
The Orthodox conversation over the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision reminds me why I am Modern Chassidish and not Modern Orthodox. There are many differences between these two streams, but the defining distinction is this: their views differ greatly over the role of Halacha (Jewish law) in religious life. The Modern Orthodox Jew experiences the…
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Opinion Let’s Unite To Make Marriage Stronger for All — Gay and Straight
In the stirring words of his groundbreaking decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy not only affirmed the value of marriage between those of the same sex. He also wrote into the law journals and history books a rigorous, passionate argument for marriage, period. “No union is more profound than marriage,…
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