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Violent acts, Summer 2015

Responses to murders at 2015 Jerusalem Pride Parade and Duma Village

Calls for communal soul searching / communal response Claims that these were isolated cases Support for the murder(s)
English:
  1. Rabbi Steven Greenberg, Times of Israel, 07/31/15
  2. Rabbi Ysocher Katz, The Forward, 08/02/15
  3. Rabbi Dov Lipman, Times of Israel, 08/04/15
  4. Rabbi Jeffrey Salkin, Martini Judaism, 08/04/15
  5. Rabbi Eric Yoffie, Haaretz, 08/03/15
  1. Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Times of Israel, 08/02/15
  2. Rabbi Avi Shafran, The Forward, 08/03/15
Hebrew:
  1. A group of Israeli rabbis, Public statement against murder
  2. Tehilah Fridman, NRG, 08/04/15
  3. Rabbi Binyamin Lau, YouTube, 08/03/15 (Eng. subtitles)
  4. President Reuven Rivlin, Facebook, 08/01/15
  5. Prof. Yedidia Stern and Prof. Chanoch Dagan, Israeli Democracy Institute, 08/09/15
  1. Rabbi Menachem Brod, LaDaat, 08/09/15
  1. Anonymous, Poster in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, “The plague was stayed”
  2. Anonymous, Poster in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, “Fortunate are you, Reb Yishai!”

English: Rabbi David Golinkin, The Schechter Institutes, 07/14, written in response to the 2014 murder of Muhammed Abu Khdeir

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