Brooklyn, NY – Kletzky Death Unites Jewish Communities This Sabbath

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    Brooklyn, NY – In Borough Park and surrounding neighborhoods where the Jewish Sabbath is strictly observed, there was silence on the street as Jewish congregations across the city reflected on the murder of 9-year-old Leiby Kletzky, Pablo Guzman reports.

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    Just five days ago, Leiby got lost and, police say, asked the wrong man for directions. His body was found the next day, a discovery sending shock across the tight knit community, and the rest of the city.

    Congressman Michael Grimm, whose Staten Island district also covers a part of Brooklyn, was an FBI agent. He told Guzman, “The very first thing that crossed my mind is that we had a psychopath on our hands. And that there could possibly be, more bodies out there.”

    Police think that is a possibility, and Levi Aron’s defense lawyers have already prepared for an insanity defense.

    “He’s indicated to me that he hears voices. And there’s some hallucinations involved as well,” said defense lawyer Pierre Bazile.

    The suspect has undergone psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital, but one investigator close to those who were in the room when Aron made his statements, his alleged confession, investigators with experience in insanity cases, said it appears to them that he was somewhat calm and rational in his own way when he made those statements.

    In other words, a judge, they say, may find that Aron is fit to stand trial.

    “Certainly we knew people who were searching for him. And everybody was very affected. In fact, we had people come to temple who hadn’t been to temple in a while ’cause they needed to hear this message. And it’s hard,” said Cantor Suzanne Bernstein of the Progressive Temple Beth Ahavath Sholom in Borough Park.


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    bracha18
    bracha18
    12 years ago

    i couldnt stop thinking about leiby Z”L and his family all shabbos. im so anxious and consumed with pain…..when i lit candles i thought of how just last friday, leibys mother lit candles and davened for all her children not knowing that this week she will be davening for her girls in this world and her son in the next world…..i was thinking of them spending shabbos without Leiby Z”L….the father going to shul without him…im soooooo worried about this family. every thing i did this shabbos i tried to say it should be lzeicher nishmas yehuda ben nachman and i davened in my own words that HaShem the Baal Harachamim should give them tons of nechama and strength….i cant deal……i cant imagine how the family is dealing…i dont even know them…..HaShem please heal their wounds and comfort them for only you can give them peace, nechama and chizuk. Amen.

    SherryTheNoahide
    SherryTheNoahide
    12 years ago

    Upon reading the gracious letter the parents of Leiby wrote thanking everyone for their help & support… I couldn’t help but notice that the FIRST thing they mentioned, was that they were “forever grateful to HaShem (G-d)”.

    The level of emunah (faith) these people have is beyond words. I watched video of the footage & shared it w\my husband as well. Although it was in Yiddish, so we did not understand the words…we heard their souls speak to us for sure.

    As faithful Noachides, we are humbled & honored to have the privilege to be allowed to stand in even just the shadow of the Jewish Nation.

    G-d bless the Borough Park community, and G-d bless the people of Israel, now & forever, Amen.

    Joe-Shmoe
    Joe-Shmoe
    12 years ago

    Oh! I was wondering why nobody writes how progressives are feeling! Finally!

    12 years ago

    מלאכים וויינען אין הימל those are the voices he’s hearing

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    The article makes it sound as if the lawyers would be engaging in some type of evil if they followed their ethical obligations to present the most effective defense they can for Aron. However, in our system of justice, that is what they must do, whether its a mental illness defense or any other arguments that might get him out of jail. That is the beauty of our system of criminal justice that even the worst offenders are assured of a strong legal defense.