On April 1, the eve of Passover, the synagogue of the Neturei Karta congregation in Monsey, NY, was nearly burned to the ground. Threats had been mounting against the anti-Zionist Orthodox Jewish sect since congregation members, led by Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, traveled to Tehran and shook hands with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the Holocaust-denial conference in December. The New York Times [1] reported that the local Ramapo Police Department has ruled out arson. Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA [2]) called the fire "the latest attack on the group by pro-Israeli gangs in the US."
See our last post on the Neturei Karta [3].
