(JTA)
A homeless man accused of setting off a bomb outside a Southern California Chabad House has died in federal custody.
Ron Hirsch, 62, who set off the bomb in April 2011 at the Santa Monica Chabad House, died last month at a federal medical center in North Carolina, the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles reported … Hirsch was arrested four days later in a suburban Cleveland synagogue and Jewish center by the FBI and local police shortly after evening prayers as he sat studying from a Jewish text. A local rabbi had recognized his photo from a Jewish website.
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