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The firing followed what one well-placed Park East congregant described as an attempted “coup” by Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt

Benjamin Goldschmidt says name of new community he’s starting with his wife will be 'Altneu,' a portmanteau of the Yiddish words for 'old' and 'new'

He added that his son would not have wanted him to remain angry over what happened. “I have no anger in me. That would be a blow to Itamar’s memory. That will not be my son’s spirit and soul. I will remain true to him,” he said. Itamar Ben Abu, 47, was killed after a driver plowed into a crowd in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood on February 28, 2021. (courtesy) Albert Ben Abu and his family said his son was not part of the mob and had been trying to calm the situation. “He just ran into a terrible situation and paid for it with his life. He only wanted to help, ...

127 shares Ibrahim Hamed, the driver accused of running over a man on February 28 in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, arrives at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court for a court hearing on March 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) A driver who plowed his minibus into a demonstrator in Jerusalem on Sunday night, killing him, told investigators he had been attacked by a group of protesters before the fatal ramming. “When I came to the road, they started attacking me and throwing rocks at me because I’m an Arab,” Ibrahim Hamed told police investigators, according to Channel 13 ne...