…Judaism in these commentaries was the culprit which drove this man to do what he did.

But I disagree. I think Shlissel is proof of the opposite. What an extraordinary community of people are Haredi Jews who never ever in all these years of sodomites on parade ever produced such an incident. The case of Yishai Shlissel is the exception that shines a powerful light on Judaism for producing only this one evil man in all these years.

If Haredi Judaism had been preaching and indoctrinating its young people toward homicidal hatred of sodomites, they sure are doing a lousy job of it if all they could come up with was this character Shlissel.

In a similar vein, I was stunned by the settler bashing on the presumption the fatal arson was the handiwork of a national religious fanatic.

First of all, it is just ugly that these commentators do not extend the benefit of the doubt to their fellow Jews and bide their time a bit. If it turns out, G-d forbid, to have been an out-of-control Jew, there will be time to bash the settlers to their hearts’ content. In the meantime, they might not jump to the conclusion as they did and let loose with snarling hatred for half million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.

Here too is a hatred of Judaism, of the religion…