May God Comfort All Who Mourn

Still reeling from yesterday’s shocking attack on a young rabbi and his two sons in front of a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.

Reports say that the gunman shot into the cluster of children and adults in front of Ozer Hatorah school from a motorbike and may have been wearing a video camera around his neck. Forensics have already linked the shooter to last week’s murders of four dark-skinned French soldiers, and there’s question on whether these are serial killings or hate crimes. Obviously, both. Today authorities are tracking down French paratroopers with Neo-Nazi connections.

I am filled with sadness for the mother left on this earth without her husband and sons. May her community and faith couch her bereft heart, and may the police catch the motherf*cker who did this.

Yesterday also brought more death in Jewish news: Convicted Nazi concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk took his last breath in a German nursing home over the weekend. I’m sure there’s someone who’s mourning for him, but I won’t shed a tear over one less Nazi in the world.

I wrote this about him last May.

Also, my heart is with the mother of Trayvon Martin, the 17 year-old boy shot and killed by neighborhood watchman overzealous vigilante George Zimmerman Feb. 26. Zimmerman has not been arrested, as Florida’s laws allow a person to shoot someone in “self-defense,” even if the other person in unarmed. Martin was carrying only a bag of Skittles, a detail that brings tears to my eyes every time I read it.

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