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NEWSBRIEFS Death Row Inmate Who Argued Judge Was
Antisemitic Wins New Trial
A JEWISH MAN who argued that the judge who
sentenced him to death was antisemitic will receive a
new trial, JTA reported.

Randy Halprin, 44, was set to be executed on Oct.

10, 2019, but won a stay from the Texas Court of
Criminal Appeals aft er alleging that the judge who
presided over his 2003 murder trial was biased against
Jews and referred to him using antisemitic slurs.

Th e stay sent Halprin’s case back to Dallas County.

Th ere, Judge Lela Lawrence Mays granted a new trial.

Halprin was serving a 30-year sentence for harming
a child when he and six other inmates attempted to
escape. A police offi cer was killed during the attempt;
each inmate in the group — known as the “Texas 7”
— was sentenced to die. Halprin claimed that he never
fi red his gun.

Holocaust Denier’s Remains Buried in
Jewish Grave in Germany
Th e remains of a notorious Holocaust denier and
neo-Nazi were interred in the burial plot of a German-
Jewish music scholar who died before the Holocaust,
and the church that oversees the cemetery is looking
to rectify its “terrible mistake,” JTA reported.

Henry Hafenmayer died earlier this month and
was buried Oct. 8 at the Stahnsdorf South-Western
Cemetery in Brandenburg, southwest of Berlin.

Hafenmayer’s ashes were buried in a plot that had
belonged to Max Friedländer, a Jewish singer and
musical scholar who died in 1934.

Cemetery management said Hafenmayer was
originally denied a more central burial plot to prevent
his grave from becoming a neo-Nazi pilgrimage site.

But aft er denying Hafenmayer the more central plot,
it accepted a request to bury him in Friedländer’s plot,
which was deemed available for a new burial because
its lease wasn’t renewed.

Friedländer’s remains were moved elsewhere, but
the headstone remained in its place because it was
designated a historical monument.

Texas Offi cial: State Law Requires Teaching
‘Opposing’ Views on Holocaust
Teachers in a Texas school district were told that a
new state law requiring them to present multiple
perspectives about controversial issues meant they
needed to make “opposing” views on the Holocaust
available to students, JTA reported.

NBC News obtained an audio recording of Gina
Peddy, the Carroll Independent School District’s
executive director of curriculum and instruction,
telling teachers about how to work under the new
law’s constraints. House Bill 3979 was passed amid
a wave of eff orts in Republican-led statehouses to
prevent “critical race theory,” “divisive” topics and
concepts related to race and bias from being taught
to children.

“Make sure that if, if you have a book on the
Holocaust that you have one that has...other
perspectives,” Peddy said on the recording.

German Talmud Translation from 1935
Now Accessible Online
When Lazarus Goldschmidt completed his translation
of the Talmud into German, it was 1935, two years aft er
Adolf Hitler rose to power, and Goldschmidt himself
had already fl ed to London, JTA reported.

Today, German-speaking Jews are getting another
chance to engage with Goldschmidt’s work — he was
the fi rst to complete a full translation of the Talmud
into any European language.

Sefaria, the website that makes Jewish texts avail-
able and interactive online, added Goldschmidt’s
translation to its library.

“Th e original publication of this document was
a milestone event in German Jewish life,” said Igor
Itkin, a German rabbinical student whose team
adapted Goldschmidt’s translation for online use. ●
— Compiled by Andy Gotlieb
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