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non-life threatening injuries:'
Todashev entered the United States on
a student visa, and he was granted per-
manent resident status in February, the
Herald reported, citing an official familiar
with his case. He was an expert in mixed
martial arts.
Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with
police several days after the marathon
bombing, which he is accused of plan-
ning and carrying out with the help of his
younger brother, Dzokhar, who is in custo-
dy and still hospitalized from his wounds.
The murders of Brendan Mess, Rafael
Teken and Erik Weissman, committed in
Waltham, Mass., are considered among
the more violent acts in the Boston area in
recent history.
They were found dead on the evening
of Sept. 11, 2011, in an apartment sev-
eral miles from the campus of Brandeis
University. Their throats were slit and
about seven pounds of marijuana was
dumped on the bodies, as well as $5,000 in
cash left behind.
Weissman and Teken were Jewish
Tamerlan Tsarnaev knew Mess well but
did not attend his funeral, despite once
referring to him as his "best friend:' and
participating in boxing and martial arts
training together.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's mother has
acknowledged that her son and Todashev

were friends and saw each other frequently
when both were in Boston.

Average Palestinian Attacker
Just 12-14 Years Old
(JNS.org) — IDF Col. Yaniv Alaluf said
that the average Palestinian attacker
behind recent rock and firebomb attacks
on Israeli drivers is only "12-14 years old:'
Israel National News reported.
At a meeting in the Etzion region in
Judea and Samaria, Alaluf met with
residents to address concerns over the
increase in rock and firebomb attacks on
drivers in the region.
A report from Israel's domestic security
agency, the Shin Bet, revealed there were
90 attacks on Jewish residents in Judea and
Samaria in April, down slightly from 101
in March. Most of these attacks were fire-
bombs or the planting of roadside bombs,
Haaretz reported.
Alaluf said many people beg soldiers not
to arrest the teenage attackers "because
they have tests in school the next day"

Funeral Held In N.Y. For Torah
Scrolls Ruined By Sandy
May 28, 2013 10:49am
(JTA) — A funeral was held in New York
for 12 Torah scrolls destroyed in super-
storm Sandy.
Some 1,000 rabbis and members ofmore

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more than 45 synagogues attended the
ceremony on Sunday outside Congregation
Kneseth Israel in Far Rockaway, Queens.
The buried scrolls were from synagogues
in Queens and on Long Island.
Several experts reportedly could not
repair the damage to the scrolls.
The scrolls were not buried last October
in the aftermath of the storm because
rabbinic leaders believed the Jewish com-
munity would not have been able to inter-
nalize how deep the tragedy was because
of their other losses.

Dutch School Stalls Shoah
Memorial To Avoid Vandalism
(JTA) — A school in a heavily Muslim
neighborhood of The Hague delayed plans
for a Holocaust monument over vandalism
fears.
Gerard Brasjen, a spokesman for the
Paul Kruger School, told JTA on Tuesday
that the Christian-affiliated school's board
had discussed a plan to place a commemo-
rative plaque on the school facade, but the
plan stalled "not because of the Jewish-
Muslim issue but because it may not be
wise in the neighborhood, which is not a
peaceful place:'
Before the Holocaust, the building of the
Paul Kruger School, in the Schilderswijk
neighborhood, housed the Joodsch
Lyceum, a Jewish high school. Kruger was

an Afrikaner national leader.
Last week, the De Telegraaf daily report-
ed the school dropped the plan following
objections by local residents who said a
Holocaust plaque might not be acceptable
to some members of Schilderswijk's sizable
Muslim population, but Brasjen said he
was not aware of such objections.
The Center for Information and
Documentation, a Hague-based anti-
Semitisim watchdog, said Monday that "it
seems that the school feared there would
be protests:' but "there is little reason to
fear violence against memorial monu-
ments for Jewish children in the area:'
Anat Harel, co-organizer of a Holocaust
commemoration event May 4 at the
school, told De Telegraaf that a poster
advertising the event could not be placed
outside the building "because of concerns
regarding kids hanging around the school."
Then, the anti-Muslim Party for
Freedom asked Security and Justice
Minister No Opstelten to research anti-
Semitism among Muslim immigrants in
the Netherlands.
The De Telegraaf report came on the
heels of a story in the Trouw daily that said
a part of the Schilderswijk neighborhood
had turned into a "Sharia area; where
police dare not enter and non-Muslims are
regularly harassed — claims that city offi-
cials have denied.

