Walter Gerson, 85, U.S., businessman, Army chaplain, Dec. 8

Walter Gerson, 85, who prepared a seder in a German war zone in 1945, and who later interrogated Nazi prisoners near the war’s end, died Dec. 8, 2007, in San Diego, California.
Gerson was a Jewish chaplain for a time during the war, because no official chaplains were available, according to an oral history quoted in [...]

Baltimore Jewish cemetery, gravestones vandalized

“I can’t begin to describe what I feel. Extreme anger. Helplessness. I don’t understand. Clearly people don’t understand the concept of the holy word.”
- Neil Noble, Vice President, B’nai Israel Congregation, founded 1873, oldest continually operated modern Orthodox synagogue in Maryland.
See another report (with more video) from the Baltimore Sun.