A decision on the site of the pending capital murder trial of Rabbi Fred Neulander could be several weeks away, the trial judge told attorneys on Friday.

Superior Court Presiding Criminal Judge Linda Rosenzweig said she will rule on a change of venue motion by Jan. 19, the next scheduled court date in the case. The decision could come before then, she said, but not until she reviews more than 250 published news stories about the Nov. 1, 1994, beating death of Carol Neulander, and the subsequent investigation of and eventual arrest of her husband.

The rabbi's attorneys, Jeffrey Zucker and Dennis Wixted, have said the prominence within Camden County of both the victim and the suspect will make it impossible to seat an impartial jury. They have not suggested a specific county to either provide jurors or host the trial.

Rosenzweig said that while the Neulanders may have been ``well-known in the Jewish community and in Cherry Hill, they were not like elected officials. They were not household names.''

Camden County First Assistant Prosecutor James Lynch has opposed selection of an outside jury and relocation of the trial.

Rosenzweig denied a prosecutor's request to issue a gag order barring comments to the media by Neulander's defense team. Wixted said even without comments by them, there is no way to limit publication on newspapers' Web sites of court documents, including lengthy confessions by the admitted killers, Leonard Jenoff and Paul Michael Daniels. Both have pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and said they were acting at the direction of Rabbi Neulander.

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