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French Jewish politician found dead with stab wounds in his home
Jewish Journal
January 12, 2016
The body of a French Jewish politician from a Paris suburb was found riddled with stab wounds in his apartment.\n
3 slain civil rights workers to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2014
Three civil rights workers killed in Mississippi in 1964 while registering black voters will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom 50 years after their deaths.
IOC denies in-person appeal for minute of silence
Jewish Journal
July 26, 2012
The International Olympic Committee rejected an in-person appeal for a minute of silence at the opening ceremonies of the London Games by the widows of two of the 11 Israelis slain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.
Thousands attend funeral for murdered Brooklyn boy
Jewish Journal
July 14, 2011
Thousands of people turned out for the funeral of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old Chasidic boy in Brooklyn found murdered and dismembered after having disappeared two days earlier.
Ronni Chasen: A Hollywood murder mystery
Danielle Berrin
November 22, 2010
It was fitting, in that Hollywood way, that the last time Ronni Chasen was seen alive was at a movie premiere. She was there in all her usual glory — stylish and smiling, effortlessly working the room, among friends.
‘Milk’ Captures Doomed Life of Gay, Jewish Politician
Jewish Journal
December 10, 2008
The San Francisco County supervisor, who was murdered in his City Hall office in 1978, enjoyed conversing in Yiddish with Sharyn Saslafsky, who would come into his camera store in San Francisco\’s Castro district as a customer or just to shmooze.
Conspiracy Theories on Arafat Death Rise
Gil Sedan
December 1, 2005
A year after Yasser Arafat\’s death, Palestinians are developing a new myth around their historic leader: Arafat did not die from natural causes but was murdered, most likely by Israel.
Now an Israeli Arab politician has joined the conspiracy bandwagon.
Dad Fights to Keep Child’s Killer in Jail
Jim Crogan
August 18, 2005
Armed with stacks of petitions and fueled by the anger and sadness he\’s carried ever since his daughter, Robbyn Sue Panitch, was brutally murdered by a deranged, homeless man, 81-year-old Allan Panitch returned to Los Angeles recently to gather signatures for his campaign to block her killer\’s parole.
If We Don’t Cry Over Carnage, Who Will?
Yechezkel Chezi Goldberg
February 12, 2004
Yechezkel Chezi Goldberg, a Jerusalem-based counselor for adolescents and families at risk, wrote the following essay in 2001. On Jan. 29, Goldberg was murdered in a Jerusalem bus bombing.
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