LOS ANGELES – A homeless man was charged Tuesday with several felonies for allegedly attacking a Jewish couple in Beverly Hills. Jarris Silagi, 44, faces one count of attempted second-degree robbery, one count of elder or dependent adult abuse, infliction of injury, one count of assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of assault […]
A 44-year-old man has been charged with violently attacking a Jewish couple who were walking to a Beverly Hills synagogue on the weekend, Los Angeles County.
In Beverly Hills, a Jewish couple faced an antisemitic attack while heading to their synagogue. Raphy, 75, and Rebecca, 70, were accosted by an assailant demanding Rebecca s earrings and shouting derogatory slurs. Despite the shock, they chased the attacker until police intervened. The aggressor, Jarris Jay Silagi, 44, was arrested on hate-motivated assault charges. Despite injuries, Raphy attended the synagogue, emphasizing the importance of faith.
Gadi Haggai, 73, and Judih Weinstein Haggai, 70, were walking in the morning outside Kibbutz Nir Oz early on October 7 when they were attacked by Hamas
Although Jewish people usually, but not always, share a common gene pool, they are not a race because any non-Jew who converts to Judaism will be recognized as being Jewish by all those rabbis who share a commitment to the same denomination of Judaism as the rabbi who did the conversion. So what really could be considered to constitute ‘Jewishness’?