On a sunny Saturday morning last August, Rabbi Joseph Raksin was shot and killed by two young African American men as he walked to a synagogue in an unincorporated neighborhood in North Miami Beach.  Raksin was a Lubavitcher, a member of Chabad, the Chassidic sect with headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and was visiting his two daughters and seven grandchildren in South Florida.  The rabbi was dressed in the clothes male Chassidim wear on the Sabbath -- a beketshe, the long black silk coat, a black hat with a wide brim over his kippa, and black shoes.  He had the traditional full beard.  Raksin was unmistakably an Orthodox Jew. Was the rabbi killed because he was Jewish? The Miami-Dade police were quick to deny this.  A spokesperson for the department, Elena Hernandez, told reporters that afternoon that “there is no evidence this was a hate crime.”  Two days later, on August 11th, Major Hector Llevat repeated the line at a news...(Read Full Article)