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Jewish director murdered in Tashkent
Yael Branovsky
Published: 07.09.07, 13:26
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1. z'l. HaShem avenge his blood
Rick ,   Sharon, CT   (09.07.07)
2. Baruch Dayan Ha'emet
LEE ,   NY, USA   (09.07.07)
3. poor guy-i feel sorry for his family
yahn goodey   (09.07.07)
i'd like to find a place to hide far far away from evil doers that perpetrate such hideous crimes against the innocents.
4. Jewish Director Murdered in Tashkent
Daniel H ,   Washington DC USA   (09.07.07)
As an American Jew who lived in Tashkent for several years, I doubt that the murder of Ilkum Theater director Mark Veil was motivated by anti-semitism. My own experience in post-Soviet Tashkent is that Jews are much less persecuted now in Uzbekistan than they were under the Soviets, and that antisemitism there, while it exists of course, rarely takes an overt or violent form. The unfortunate fact is that the Karimov regime has become more and more oppressive, more and more restrictive in controlling the media, and that the Ilkum Theater presented avant-guard plays which sometimes angered the Uzbek government. I would think it more likely that the murder was politically motivated, possibly even carried out by the Karimov government itself, than anti-semitic.
5. Another Jew murdered
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (09.08.07)
Will there never, ever be an end to these atrocities? What in the world have Jews ever done to anybody to deserve this sort of horror?
6. SECOND JEW TO DIE IN TASHKENT IN 2 MONTHS
HAL TRIPP ,   LA PAZ, BOLIVIA   (09.07.07)
THE UZBEK GOVERNMENT HAD THE RABBI OF THE SHUL IN TASHKENT 2 MONTHS AGO AND NOW THEY HAVE THEIR SECOND JEW TO DIE, IT'S TIME ISRAEL PUTS ITS FOOT DOWN WITH THESE MUSLIM SAVAGES,WHERE IS THE U.N. AND WORLD OPINION, WHERE IS CNN AND THE GURDIAN PAPER OF ENGLAND , WHAT A SAD DAY FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION TODAY
7. Uzbek Jews in danger
Miriam   (09.07.07)
Last year they killed a rabbi.
8. #3 I feel sorry for his family also,
Lea ,   usa   (09.08.07)
but you're solution of 'running away' from evil doers isn't an answer. By doing so,you'll encourage those whom commit hideous crimes,anti-semetic or otheres.. Slay those who come to slay you! BTW,what planet do you plan on going where evil doesn't exist? LOL
9. My condolences to the family. Please, G-D, Protect innocents
Linda Rivera ,   New York   (09.08.07)
10. #6 Aliyah is the only solution
Miriam   (09.08.07)
There are 12,000 Uzbek Jews living in a country with 25 million Muslims.
11. open season on jews around the world-weisel in america, two
debra ,   usa   (09.08.07)
jewish men in uzbek, and the rabbi in frankfurt, germany. this is four too many jews attacked! jews may now need to arm themselves when they are outside of israel.
12. #11 you may want to read this
km   (09.08.07)
recent article on antisemitism in Europe http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/03/AR2007090300719.html
13. #12
(09.09.07)
do you happen to have dennis mcshane's web site or e-mail address? i would like to write to him and thank him personally for his insightful article and for his wonderful work in combatting this hateful desease in our midst.
14. In California, the POLICE attack Jews on their front porches
Rivkah   (09.09.07)
trying to kill them. No one cares because the police are above the law in Central California. At least in Europe someone will investigate the murder of a Jew. In Central California, the murder of a Jew is called suicide or an accident. The Fourth Reich is rising in America in all its fascist horrors of hatred of Jews or anyone even thought to be a Jew. History repeats. What has been is what shall be.
15. #14 - Rivka - what are you talking about???
Chaya ,   Bat Yam, Israel   (09.09.07)
Police attacking Jews in California???
16. #14's statement is nonsense (End)
50 yrs in CA ,   Los Angeles   (09.09.07)
17. #10 We have already made Aliyah
Aharon   (09.10.07)
I'm a Bukharian Jew originally from Uzbekistan. The vast majority of us have already made Aliyah. There's even a street in Jerusalem called Schunat HaBucharim.
18. u dont run
u ,   s   (09.13.07)
u git even.
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