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On Nov. 1, 1986, a 15 year-old Orthodox yeshiva student Chaim Weiss was found dead with a stab wound in his yeshiva dorm room in Long Island. [[READMORE]] Weiss, who would have been 16 years old in two weeks, was stabbed while he slept by a reportedly “heavy sort of knife” sometime during Halloween eve. […]

I’ve been busy live-blogging the response to Hurricane Sandy for JTA. A number of synagogues have sustained damage. If you know of any Jewish historical sites damaged, email sandy@jta.org so we can alert our readers. If your Jewish library, gallery, etc had collections damaged by flooding or other Sandy-related causes, the Metropolitan New York Library […]