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NEVER AGAIN An unholy act in a holy place
In ‘Palestian street,’ cheers and sweets
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Elements of the “Palestinian streetâ€? cheered Tuesday’s massacre. Photos showed jubiliation, including ag waving, the distirbution of sweets, and masked Palestinians in Gaza holding axes and a gun. Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, keynote speaker at next month’s pro-Israel Bet El dinner, said Palestinian radio hailed the killers “as martyrs [and] mosques blared congratulations through loudspeakers.â€? Those asking Israel to show restraint should “show restraint and keep their stupid mouths shut ror a change,â€? he said.
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Rav Twersky had links to Riverdale and Boston Combined News Sources Memorial services were held Tuesday night in Riverdale and Boston for Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Hy�d. Twersky was a “gifted and beloved teacher,� said Rabbi Jonathan Rosenblatt of the Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx. Twersky was from a prominent rabbinical family — his grandfather was Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik — and was the head of a religious seminary for English-speaking students in Jerusalem. Rabbi Rosenblatt is married to Twersky’s sister, the former Tzipporah Twersky. He was a “gentle, saintly scholar� who “lived his life with a kind of perfected modesty and precision,� Rabbi Rosenblatt said. “He lived in the image of a gentle G-d.� In the Boston suburb of Brookline, hundreds of people attended a service at the Maimonides School. Rabbi Twersky was a 1973 graduate of the school founded by Rav Soloveitchik. Naty Katz, a classmate of Twersky’s who now heads the school, 5DEEL 0RVKH 7ZHUVN\ spoke at the service. “I will always remember our friend Mosheh, his modesty, his brilliance, his smile, his kindness,� Katz said. “We are all heartbroken.� Another longtime friend, Danny Langermann, remembered Twersky’s skill as a football offensive lineman. Langermann also recalled a long-ago hug from his friend, the Boston Globe reported, saying, “If there is anything I will carry with me for the rest of my life it is that hug.� Twersky was the son of Rabbi Isadore Twersky, a founding director of Harvard University’s Center for Jewish Studies and a scholar of Jewish hisContinued on page 14
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Shas Party member Aryeh Deri, who was in the synagogue during the attack, told Army radio there was blood on the pews and oor, with wounded and dead worshipers still wrapped in their Talit and TeďŹ lin. “They were shouting ‘Allah Akbar,’ as they carried out the attack,â€? he said. Yosef Pasternak, also at the synagogue during the assault, told Israel Radio, “I saw people lying on the oor, blood everywhere. People were trying to ďŹ ght with [the attackers] but they didn’t have much of a chance.â€? Another witness recalled how “two people came out with their faces half missing, looking like they’d been attacked with knives.â€? A medical volunteer at the scene told Bloomberg that the attackers hacked off the arm of a worshiper who was wearing TeďŹ lin. Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, part of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), claimed responsibility for the attack, calling the attack a “norContinued on page 14
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By Jeff Dunetz, for The Jewish Star Two Palestinian terrorists barged into a synagogue in Jerusalem Tuesday morning yielding guns, knives and a meat cleaver, killing at least four worshipers and one policeman and wounding at least seven others. Three of the four murdered worshipers were Americans: Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky, 43, Hyâ€?d; Rabbi Kalmen Levin, 55, Hyâ€?d; and Rabbi Moshe Twersky, 59, Hyâ€?d. The fourth, Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, 68, Hyâ€?d, was a British citizen. The police ofďŹ cer Zidan Seyf, a Druze from the Arab town of Yanuh-Jat, died Tuesday evening from wounds incurred during the shootout, in which the terrorists died. The terrorists entered the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue on Shimon Agassi St. in the Har Nof neighborhood during Shacharit services at about 7 am. They opened ďŹ re and struck worshipers with a meat cleaver and knives.