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German Muslim Sentenced for Stabbing Rabbi (he's the guy in the black jacket/ white pants) An Afghanistan-born German Muslim has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail after he stabbed a rabbi in a Frankfurt street last September. The Jewish cleric believes the man was trying to kill him and that the sentence is too lenient. A German court sentenced a 23-year-old man Afghanistan-born man to three-and-a-half years in jail on Tuesday for stabbing and seriously injuring a rabbi in Frankfurt last September. The unemployed German Muslim, named only as Sajed A., stabbed rabbi Zalman Gurevitch, 42, in an altercation with the orthodox Jewish cleric who had been walking down a street with two companions. The court convicted him of causing grievous bodily harm. The Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office had initially planned to charge him with attempted manslaughter but refrained from doing so after investigating the case. During the trial an eyewitness said the two men had been invo...

MENTAL ILLNESS TAKES ANOTHER VALUABLE LIFE Rabbi's despair ended in Empire State Building jump All I can do is ask why? Why are those with mental illness and low funds put in this situation? This man wanted help, asked for help and got poor, substandard help. His death is the result a seriously flawed and failed system, greed and the sad stigma of mental illness which must end in this country if we are to save valuable lives. BY RICH SCHAPIRO - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Jewish scholar Moshe Kanovsky jumped from the Empire State Building. He was a scholar among scholars, a young man with an impressive mind and seemingly limitless potential. Those who knew Moshe Kanovsky, one of six children in a family split between Maryland and Brooklyn, expected him to become one of the great minds in modern Jewish teachings. As a boy, he mesmerized his fellow classmates with his grasp of the Torah. And his reputation for brilliance continued as he blazed through the yeshiva equivalents of middle ...

GET ON THE MAGIC MATZOH BUS! Hebrews probably came up with some very inventive solutions for cooking while wandering the desert. But it didn't end there! A rabbi cooked up a solution for making matzoh for Passover using his EASY BAKE BUS! NY bus converted into oven for matzos By JIM FITZGERALD SPRING VALLEY, N.Y. - The first hint that something was amiss came in the middle of the night when the neighbor called to report a smell of smoke. Police investigated and found the blaze, but it wasn't your typical fire. It was an old school bus that had been converted into a supersized oven for Passover matzos — complete with a smokestack, exhaust fans and working fire. A building inspector said that while the bakery bus wasn't nearly up to code, it was "very creative." Thank you, driver, for getting me here (Too much, Magic Bus) You'll be an inspector, have no fear (Too much, Magic Bus) I don't want to cause no fuss (Too much, Magic Bus) But can I buy your Magic ...