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9/11 plus 10
A grim Jewish quandary
Avoiding halachic problems for 9/11 widows
When unthinkable disaster struck a decade ago and close to 3,000 people were murdered at the World Trade Center, the scale of destruction created a unique challenge for victims’ families: identification of the dead.
With only fragmented human remains and degraded DNA left in the wake of 9/11, that task became, in the words of the National Institute of Justice, “the greatest forensic challenge ever undertaken in this country.”
Columnist on hot seat
Settlers’ forum calls for Derfner incitement probe
JERUSALEM – The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel, a non-profit legal aid society affiliated with Israel’s settler movement, wants an investigation into whether a recently terminated Jerusalem Post columnist is guilty of encouraging Arab terrorism against Israeli civilians. The request came in a letter to State Prosecutor Yehudah Weinstein that was obtained by The Jewish Standard.
The columnist, Larry Derfner, set off a firestorm of debate recently when he published a controversial post on his personal blog allegedly suggesting that the recent triple terror attack in Eilat was “justified.” Eight Israelis were killed in that attack.
