Yeshiva Mikdash Melech in Brooklyn recently received a threatening letter, allegedly sent by inmate Matthew Karelefsky, 47, who is currently serving a 25-years-to-life sentence for attempted murder and arson.
The letter, addressed to the yeshiva on Ocean Parkway in Midwood, warned of planned mass shootings in three zip codes: 11230 and 11210 in Brooklyn, and 06710 in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Karelefsky was convicted in 2024 for setting fire to a longtime Chaim Berlin rebbi’s home in 2019, an attack that injured 13 people, including a 6-week-old infant.
The NYPD is currently investigating the threat, and it remains unclear whether additional security measures have been implemented in the affected neighborhoods.
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that was dumb the yeshivas should have sent someone down to the prison and warn him to do teshuvah otheriwise they would turnr it over to the police and it would extend his sentence they had nothing to fear anyway the guy wasnt coming out in his lifetime there was no point in going to the police they should have warned him to do teshuvah and if he would not show remorse on his face then you turn it over to the police
We don’t have enough enemies !!!!
If you hurt, already traumatized and hurt people, they get PTSD.
If they hate you and you profess to represent Hashem, they will hate G-d.
If you just daven for them, they might get better.
If you tell them they can’t get better they may become a psychopath.
If you hurt, already traumatized and hurt people, they get PTSD.
If they hate you and you profess to represent Hashem, they will hate G-d.
If you just daven for them, they might get better.
If you tell them they can’t get better they may become a psychopath.
If they become psychopaths, Hashem may use them to punish you for things you did to other people when you thought Nobody was looking
In the U.S., inmates are permitted written correspondence with almost anyone.
An inmate can, and historically they have, orchestrated violence in retribution from inside a maximum security prison.
The Torah tells us in sefer Yehoshua, to surround enemies only on 3 sides.
There’s a few reasons for that.