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Yankel Rosenbaum's murder is unlikely to cause American Jews to realign their traditionally liberal political allegiance in the way that the Dreyfus trial in France did in the 19th century. Perhaps it should. Jews, along with any group of people that prides itself upon rationality and intelligence, must reconsider its allegiance to groups and peoples who, in the most unabashed manner, do not seek to reciprocate the Jew's embrace...
...Jewishness is the most blatant incident of anti-Semitism in recent American memory. The anti-Semitic nature of the murder is borne out by the fact that if the tragic death of the black child had been the fault of anyone other than a highly identifiable Hasidic Jew, the reaction by members of the black community would not likely have been as volatile...
...life in prison. After a mostly black jury acquitted Nelson and Price in an earlier state criminal trial, Attorney General Janet Reno reopened the case in 1994 under fierce pressure from Jewish organizations who argued the attack was religiously motivated. Rosenbaum, who wore the traditional garb of an Hasidic Jew, was randomly attacked on the street as black mobs ran amok a few hours after a fatal car accident involving a 7-year-old black boy and a Lubavitcher Hasidim motorcade. Although prosecution witnesses testified that Nelson had told friends he was responsible for the murder, defense lawyers countered that...
Third, legitimate religious sects are referred to by the term Orthodox, whereas the word fundamentalist has negative connotations. Obviously, this is why Orthodox Jews take offense when called fundamentalist. In their literal sense, the terms "fundamentalist" and "Orthodox" refer to very similar ideas. The word fundamentalist means someone who is very devout and believes that every word of their holy text is true. The term Orthodox refers to a religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious...
Were these lovers of peace, these religiously observant men and women who could not sleep because, whether or not they agreed with the Prime Minister's politics, they were ashamed that a "religious" Jew had brought disgrace to the Torah by spilling blood--were these Orthodox Jews fanatics...