Jewish Extremist Burn HUNDREDS of "New Testaments"

==Orthodox Youths Burn New Testaments==
May. 20, 2008

Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds of copies of the New Testament in a
religious Israeli town.

Or Yehuda Deputy Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a
neighborhood in the predominantly religious town of 34,000 in central
Israel, distributing hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material.

After receiving complaints, Aharon said, he got into a loudspeaker car
last Thursday and drove through the neighborhood, urging people to turn
over the material to Jewish religious students who went door to door to
collect it.

The books were dumped into a pile and set afire in a lot near a
synagogue, he said.

The Israeli Maariv daily reported Tuesday that hundreds of Jewish
religious school students took part in the book-burning.

But Aharon told The Associated Press that only a few students were
present, and that he was not there when the books were torched. Not all
of the New Testaments that were collected were burned, but hundreds
were, he said.

He said he regretted the burning of the books, but called it a
"commandment" to burn materials that urge Jews to convert.

"I certainly don't denounce the burning of the booklets," he said. "I
denounce those who distributed the booklets."
Police had no immediate comment.

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