This is the second instance of anti-Semitic activity in the San Antonio area this month.

One thing was clear: What was asked of Matisyahu was not asked of other performers.

The main defendant in one attack is Ahmed Najar, a Hamas operative who was serving six life sentences when he was released as part of the Schalit deal.

A source in the Chief Rabbinate explained that “a severe shortage in manpower” was responsible for the inefficiency.

The event – a rare one for US presidential candidates – was arranged by Miami-based Simon Falic, who with his brothers owns Duty Free Americas Inc., the largest duty-free operator in the US.

The group of Olim, who departed from John F. Kennedy airport in New York, include 59 lone soldiers, 29 families, and 86 singles.

As a child, she survived the 1903 Kishinev pogrom, in what is now Moldova, in which 49 Jews died and 500 were injured over two days.

The letter was signed by 340 rabbis from all streams of Judaism and sent to all Members of Congress.