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CANDLELIGHTING

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THE JEWISH VIEW

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JUDAISM 101

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{weblog_name} - Mr. Bernstein’s “Jewish” Connection, the Law, the Torah
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So now that the State’s Attorney’s office has dropped a felony assault charge on a Jewish man accused of allegedly beating a black teen, it was reported that the word for some outside of City Hall yesterday attributed the decision to the city’s top lawyer’s ethnic background. Gregg Bernstein is Jewish, and so is the defendant Eli Werdesheim. Hmmm. Rabbi Dovid Katz is allegedly attacked by a group of eight black teens on Taney Road while walking to his synagogue for afternoon Sabbath services. The State’s Attorney at the time was Pat Jessamy. She is an African-American woman. I didn’t get my invitation to protest outside of City Hall that justice was never done after the rabbi, a city resident, was pelted with stones.  Baltimore City Police officials, however, brought people together and discussed the matter in a spirit… read more