Chabad House Explosion Was a Bombing – Suspect Sought
S. MONICA, CA — Local and federal law enforcement officers were searching for a man on Saturday thought to be responsible for an explosion outside a synagogue [Chabad of Simcha Monica].
The explosion, which caused minor damage to the Chabad House Lubavitch synagogue early on Thursday morning, was initially thought to be the result of an industrial accident. But bomb technicians determined that the blast had been caused by a homemade explosive device, the Santa Monica police said.
Investigators have linked the explosives to Ron Hirsch, 60, a transient known to frequent synagogues and Jewish community centers in the area, where he would seek charity.
Although the authorities had not established a motive in the blast, Jewish leaders said they did not believe the episode was an anti-Semitic attack. Still, the Anti-Defamation League sent out a warning to Jewish institutions.
“We have no evidence of this being a hate crime at this point,” said Amanda Susskind, the regional director of the Anti-Defamation League in Los Angeles. “We have no file on this man as a member of any hate group. Some folks in the community knew him, and it seems like he was just a very troubled soul.”
The F.B.I., the Los Angeles police and the Santa Monica police were still trying on Saturday to find and arrest Mr. Hirsch, who sometimes used the alias Israel Fisher, on state charges of possession of a destructive device and unrelated local charges.
“Hirsch is considered extremely dangerous,” Sgt. Jay Trisler of the Santa Monica Police Department said in a statement.
The explosion at 6:45 a.m. Thursday sent a metal pipe encased in concrete 25 feet into the air, before it fell onto the roof of a home neighboring the synagogue. Material from the explosion also grazed a wall of Chabad House Lubavitch.
Rabbi Isaac Levitansky was in the synagogue when the blast occurred. He said he only learned of it when the police evacuated 20 people from the synagogue and about 80 others from the area almost an hour later.
On Saturday, none of the congregants expressed any worries about the explosion.
“I feel totally safe, safer today than I’ve ever felt,” Rabbi Levitansky said. “We have no worries about an attack or anything like that.”
thats not rabbi levitansky ?!?!
MORONS
haha
wow rabbi levitansky changed alot since i last saw him
Just another sicky
Just another sick man every shul has one or two. He was probably turned away when he asked for money.
In CH all the beggers make a good living that’s why they are happy here.
Yhh
Fisher used to live on crown St on the 600 block. Nebac he is not well. He is orgnally from Texas
Concerned Yid
I’m 100% sure the LA police will shoot to kill this man without questions when they find him. I rather doubt he is really the perpetrator, just a poor nebuch who’s name was dropped simply because he is unusual and the local Chabadniks felt pressured to mosser on someone. His blood will be on the hands of whoever mossered his name to the police. IY”H the same should happen to the mosser.
CC Bilo
love how they have “Rabbi levitansky” give his own 2 cents
To #5
Wow, I must present you with the “Ignorant Award”! Have you ever heard of fingerprinting? That’s what the police and FBI do. May you have a refuah shilama for speaking and even thinking bad about other Jews went you don’t know the whole story.
a.e.m.
after kidush levana a reporter asked me questions about him, being that he came to my shul every day
To #5
You obviously don’t seem too concerned if you want the same thing to happen back to the mosser!
Los Angeles Lubavitcher
I see this nebuch in shul every morning at shacharis. Anybody who sees him should call 9-1-1 immediately. This is no joke. If the FBI determined he’s a suspect, let’s not use chesed bli sechel. Pikuach nefesh doyche es hakol.
to #5.
Shame on you to think that someone would mosser on another Yid Ch”v…The police found evidence leading them to this person…he is a nebach who came often to the CH for help and actually received it just like all of the other nebach cases that come to this CH – if you were ever there you know what I’m talking about.
Rabbi Levitansky NEVER turns away ANY soul and he would give away his own bread to a homeless Jew.
What is scary, is that he might have been paid by ‘someone’ to place that thing near the CH so that the real person responsible would get a free pass……this guy is not shayech to put together a bomb on his own.
used to know him
to #4he also used to live in EMANUEL ISRAEL. he is devorced many many years ago had a wife and many children after israel moved to Belguim got a devoriced and fll on hard times . his father rectely passed away his father lived in israel
yetta mirel
@#4 how do you that is yisrol fisher, do you keep up the latest with him?sinice he lived in crown heights many many years ago [ about 35 years ago] he lived in about 5 other places around the world; why did you never help him out? at one time in his life he had a wife and kids
pay (80) tzaddikim
The suspect is clearly 39 WD’s short of a can of WD-40 and needs to be in custodial care. Unless he was indeed put up to it, he is meshugge in the same way the Unabomber is meshugge and therefore dangerous. #5 is one of the 80 tzaddikim who are such gantze tzaddikim that only they know what big tzaddikim they are.
annoyed
MORE LASHON HARAH!!!!!!!
iknowhim
he is sarges son. sarge fisher use to stand next ben klien during frabrengans.
i learnt with him in montreal or maybe israel.
BUT WILL HE BE FOUND?!
He was put up to it for sure, that’s why the FBI need him fast. The problem is that those who put him up to it would have probably paid him “half now half when it’s done,” and when he goes to collect his second half – Hashem Yirachem!
…Or maybe I’m watching too much CSI…