The murder of 31-year old Jerusalem resident Efraim Gordon in Baltimore, Maryland this week has sent shockwaves through the American Jewish community and in Israel, especially as it is being treated as a robbery gone wrong even though Gordon’s sister Ella told Arutz Sheva that it was a “murder with an anti-Semitic background.”
Blake Flayton, co-founder of the New Zionist Congress, said on Twitter, “The family heard his assailant shouting antisemitic slurs before he shot him. A murder of a kippah-wearing Jew in cold blood on the streets of America.”
(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
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