White Supremacist and Holocaust denier James Von Brunn, who shot and killed a security guard in an attack on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today, titled his anti-Semitic manifesto “Tob Shebbe Goyim Harog – Kill the Best Gentiles.” He claimed the quote comes from Talmud Sanhedrin, 59B.
The contrasts in Wednesday’s tragic and hate-filled shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum tell the whole story for Mark Rothman, director of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust: Security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns died heroically, guarding the innocent people inside from the evil on the outside. During the Holocaust, it was the guards themselves doing the killing, showering evil upon the innocents inside.
Rebecca Rubin is a spunky, conflicted, compassionate and determined 9-year-old girl. Not bad for someone 18 inches tall.
This week, the Board of Rabbis of Southern California will install Rabbi Denise Eger as its president — the first woman and the first gay rabbi to hold the position at the 72-year-old organization.
Joe Hample left his career as a systems analyst at Wells Fargo five years ago to become a rabbi, hoping to make a difference in people’s lives.
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.