BillBoard
23rd May 2011, 02:47 AM
Hasidic holy war horror
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hasidic_holy_war_horror_wg2Q6LerdbdIlvoJ8I5MSN?CMP =OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=
A man suffered severe burns during a fight amid a religious dispute in the all-Hasidic Rockland County village of New Square, cops said.
Police said the 43-year-old victim, Aron Rottenberg, fought off a village resident armed with an incendiary device.
The suspect, Shaul Spitzer, 18, was charged with attempted arson and first-degree assault. He suffered serious burns to his hands and arms.
Rottenberg was hospitalized with burns to 50 percent of his body, according to the Journal News, which quoted cops as saying he and his family had been targeted for not attending the synagogue presided over by the grand rabbi. They went to a rival synagogue instead.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hasidic_holy_war_horror_wg2Q6LerdbdIlvoJ8I5MSN?CMP =OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=
A man suffered severe burns during a fight amid a religious dispute in the all-Hasidic Rockland County village of New Square, cops said.
Police said the 43-year-old victim, Aron Rottenberg, fought off a village resident armed with an incendiary device.
The suspect, Shaul Spitzer, 18, was charged with attempted arson and first-degree assault. He suffered serious burns to his hands and arms.
Rottenberg was hospitalized with burns to 50 percent of his body, according to the Journal News, which quoted cops as saying he and his family had been targeted for not attending the synagogue presided over by the grand rabbi. They went to a rival synagogue instead.