Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in Britain
amid a growing chorus of criticism at Israel’s assault on Gaza. There have been
bomb threats, bricks have been thrown at synagogues, a rabbi attacked and a
#HitlerDidNothingWrong hashtag circulated on Twitter. According to the Sunday
Times, more than 100 incidents have been recorded by community organizations
and police this month, well above what is normally experienced. Four teenagers
have been charged with racially aggravated common assault after a rabbi was
reportedly attacked near a Jewish boarding school in Gateshead on 18 July,
while in Belfast, on the same day, bricks were hurled through a synagogue’s
window. On 12 July, following a pro-Palestine rally, a group of men piled into
four or five cars and drove through a Jewish area of Greater Manchester crying
“Heil Hitler,” while also pelting pedestrians with eggs and drinks cans. Read
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The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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