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Just to provide some context on this horrifying incident: while technically Moreshet Yisrael is part of the Israeli Masorti movement, it is located at the Jerusalem HQ of North America's United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, a technically separate organization. CJ has always been seen as "Amerikai" by Israelis, although with the growth of liberal Judaism in Israel hopefully that is starting to change. I guess it doesn't help that they chose to put the English so prominently on their signage..
btw, I assume the vandals still want American $ coming in, right?
“Smelly Americans!” “Americans Out!” Star of Davids With Swastikas Deface Conservative Synagogue In Jerusalem, Government Does Nothing In Response
The Conservative Movement's Moreshet Yisrael Synagogue in Jerusalem was defaced Monday morning by unknown vandals who painted Stars of David with swastikas in their centers on a welcome sign. In a previous incident several days ago, the synagogue was defaced with graffiti reading "Smelly Ameri...
Not enough information as to his background to say "what kind" of Orthodoxy. I only point out that (a) one needs only to look at the ugly comments on the CBS article to see that his being Jewish absolutely matters; this too-frequent type of crime fuels anti-Semitism; (b) to say that he's obviously not Haredi because he's not trembling before anyone is merely the no-true-Scotsman fallacy and creates the thought-terminating tautology that Haredi crime is impossible.
Haredi Teen Arrested For Felony Series Of Anti-Semitic Vandalisms
Eighteen-year-old Jonathan Schuster of Far Rockaway allegedly vandalized billboards at the Cedarhurst Long Island Railroad station with anti-Semitic graffiti at least eight different times. Schuster is reportedly charged with eight counts each of felony hate crime, misdemeanor criminal mischie...
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