Gosh, why would they do that? Martin Solomon posts some e-mail from one of the organizers:

The effect of a silent march through the (mostly but not entirely) liberal Jewish neighborhood on the Sabbath with a banner saying Freedom and Equality for Palestine! should be strikng indeed...

And yes, there will be pro-Israel counter march, with people standing outside the temples along the route.

Boston Police tweet the fire hazmat unit responded to St. Mary's Street on the Brookline line around 5:30 a.m. for a hydrogen leak. No one was injured and no evacuation was needed.

Fire crews also raced to the center on Friday when an alarm indicated a possible leak of the explosive gas.

Wicked Local Brookline reports police say they still don't know what caused Tracy Milillo to fall to the ground and die on Sept. 9, but that it was not a collision with a car.

A Suffolk County Grand Jury yesterday indicted Rabbi Stanley Z. Levitt on charges he sexually assaulted two students from the Maimonides School in Brookline when he was a teacher there in the 1970s.

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Nick Bonadies tweets a bicyclist was hit by a car this morning at Beacon and Marion streets, across from the 7-Eleven, possibly by a car that cut her off in an attempt to make a right turn.

That makes at least three bicyclists hit by cars in two weeks in a town that has been busy putting in bicycle lanes. No word on his condition, but cops and EMTs were on scene when Bonadies went by.

Grimlocke reports how she almost got hit by a car in Brookline this morning:

In the crosswalk. I threw my bagel and hit the car. Then I ate the bagel. Everyone who drives in Brookline is an assclown.

A “Voter Choice” initiative petition turned in to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office on Wednesday would give Massachusetts voters a chance to change to a voting system that lets voters rank their choices instead of voting for only one candidate. The change would apply to key races, including for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary and treasurer, among others, starting after January 2012.

Wicked Local Brookline reports a woman hit by a car on Sept. 10 at Longwood Avenue has died.

George Aaron Cuddy tweets he's on the dead outbound train, just before Brookline Village.

Brookline Police report an incident on Beacon Street near Washington Square:

Victim reported that a pane of his condo's glass window was found broken. Victim stated that before the break he had heard a loud sound of breaking glass. A crab apple sized pod was found on the kitchen floor. The pods grow in the rear of the condo. Police checked the rear of the building.

Donald Sutherland was unavailable for comment.