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Death Threats Against Swedish Rabbi after Jerusalem Massacre
INN ^ | 11/21/2014, 11:07 AM | Ari Yashar

Posted on 11/21/2014 2:07:53 PM PST by Olog-hai

In the wake of the horrific terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue this Tuesday, the rabbi of the Jewish community in Gothenburg, the second largest city in Sweden, has received deaths threats to burn down his synagogue—with him inside of it.

Rabbi Hillel Ḥayyim Lavery-Yisraëli made aliyah (immigration) to Israel at the age of 19 from Canada. After graduating the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem, he has served as Gothenburg’s rabbi since 2012. The married father of four serves in the city’s Great Synagogue, which was built in 1865 and is the oldest in the country, and which has now been threatened with destruction.

On Wednesday, a day after the Jerusalem attack, the rabbi told Arutz Sheva he received a letter from an anonymous source to his work e-mail address at the Jewish community referencing the attack in which four Jews and a Druze police officer were murdered. …

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: eussr; gothenburg; rop; sweden

1 posted on 11/21/2014 2:07:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

These peaceful religionists better be careful. A backlash just might make the Holocaust look like choir practice. People will say that Tom Tancredo was ahead of his time...


2 posted on 11/21/2014 2:12:39 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: Olog-hai

The threat is the same M.O. that Boku Haram (ISIS/AQ affiliate) has been doing against Christians in Africa.


3 posted on 11/21/2014 2:49:24 PM PST by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: BigEdLB

There will never be a backlash in Sweden or anywhere in the West and the muzzies know that.

Muzzies know that, if there were one, host governments will protect them for fear of a backlash toward non-Muslims in Muslim countries.


4 posted on 11/21/2014 5:11:39 PM PST by 353FMG
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