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Hourly Roundup 01:00 Israel · 13 Nov 2026

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A New Jersey dentist saw a worshipper in a chokehold, struck the attacker with a flashlight, and was charged as the criminal. The prosecutor's office reportedly wrote that there was only one victim, and it was the attacker. Torah law draws the line differently. One who rises to save a fellow Jew from a pursuer is not a violent man but a redeemer of blood, and the sages teach that had he stood by, his silence would have been the sin. The deeper point is that a society which cannot tell the rescuer from the aggressor has lost the moral sense that makes protection possible. When the law calls the defender the offender, the danger is not only to him. It is to everyone who will now hesitate.