With everything that’s going on in the world—with the obvious and documented increase in anti-Semitic incidents—there is naturally great concern in the community regarding the tragic murder of Rabbi Joseph Raksin. I share this concern. This certainly could be more than a simple robbery and we shouldn’t be hasty to dismiss the likelihood that this murder was indeed a hate crime until there is hard police evidence to the contrary. Rabbi Raksin was clearly identifiable as a Jew—as a religious Jew—when he was shot and killed. We ask that no one reach any conclusions until there is conclusive proof.

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