Sunday, October 09, 2005

Man Shot During Rosh Hashanah Services

This is what our world has come to. I have now completely lost my faith in humanity:

Congregant shoots fellow worshipper outside synagogue

BY CHRYSTIAN TEJEDOR AND TAL ABBADYSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - Solemn Rosh Hashana services being held in a storefront synagogue in west Boca Raton, Fla., to mark the Jewish New Year came to a shocking halt Tuesday afternoon when two feuding congregants walked outside and one shot the other twice in the chest at point blank range.

Some 200 worshippers in the Chabad Weltman Synagogue heard gunfire just after the reading of a traditional prayer that discusses God's judgment of who will live and who will die.

"This wasn't how we thought we would be celebrating the New Year," said Mordechai Sufrin, 70, clad in the typical Chassidic attire of black hat and long coat. (Click here for the rest of the article)

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