The trial of Shalom Shtarkes, charged with complicity in the kidnaping two years ago of his nephew, Yossele Schumacher, continued in a Jerusalem court here this weekend with testimony by Miriam Shtarkes, mother of the defendant and grandmother of the boy.
In her testimony, as the first defense witness, Mrs. Shtarkes told the court that she and her husband cared for her grandson while the boy’s parents were busy getting settled, following their immigration to Israel from Russia in 1957. She said that they sent the child to a yeshiva, and did everything to enable him to be brought up as a good Jew. When she heard that the boy’s parents contemplated returning to Russia, Mrs. Shtarkes testified, she and her husband were concerned over their grandchild’s future religious upbringing.
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