This Jewish kid that tried to bar-b-cue the other Jewish kid must have learned the trick from reading Christian history, as this is what Christians did to “witches” and other heretics throughout most of Europe for several hundred years during the Dark Ages.
Isn’t religion wonderful? Muslims blowing themselves up, Jews trying to set other Jews on fire, Muslims and Jews killing one another over “holy land,” Catholics and Protestants fighting over which of the two Christian sects is better, etc.
The one good thing about religion, and the only thing, is that it is the best method ever devised for population control. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
NEW CITY, N.Y. – An 18-year-old student from a Hasidic Jewish enclave has been indicted on an attempted murder charge in a fiery attack on a religious dissident.
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe said Thursday that Shaul Spitzer of New Square was also charged with attempted arson and assault.
The case has brought unusual attention to New Square, an insular village of 7,000 people, nearly all of them members of the Skver Hasidic sect. The sect takes its name from the Ukrainian village of Skver, where its members had been decimated during the Holocaust and for which New Square is named.
In the pre-dawn hours of May 22, Aron Rottenberg of New Square suffered burns over half his body when he confronted someone carrying a flammable liquid outside his home.
“As I grabbed him … we both just burst into flames,” a scarred Rottenberg said at a news conference Wednesday. He was released Monday from a hospital.
Relatives said they were watching for an attack because they had endured broken windows and threats ever since Rottenberg began worshipping at a nearby nursing home instead of the main synagogue.
Police arrested Spitzer, who was also burned, and said he was trying to burn down Rottenberg’s house.
Spitzer’s attorney, Kenneth Gribetz, denied the allegations.
“Mr. Spitzer has expressed tremendous remorse and sorrow for whatever injuries were caused,” Gribetz said. “He had no intention whatsoever to cause any injury to anybody in the home or to murder anybody.”
Spitzer also did not plan to burn down the house, Gribetz said.
Rottenberg’s family has alleged in a lawsuit that the attack was directed by Grand Rebbe David Twersky because of Rottenberg’s defiance.
“Definitely the community leaders are involved in this,” Rottenberg said.
Twersky has decried the attack and has not been charged.
Gribetz said Thursday that Spitzer has denied that Twersky encouraged or even knew about the attack.
Spitzer is to be arraigned Friday.
