Post by Paddy by Grace on Nov 4, 2008 15:32:26 GMT -7
Chabad rabbi and rabbinical students attacked in Berlin
www.worldjewishcongress.org/
A few days before the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogroms in Germany known as 'Kristallnacht', a rabbi and eight rabbinical students were attacked in Berlin. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, a Chabad Lubavitch rabbi in Berlin was returning in his vehicle with the students after attending a Jewish event in the city on Saturday night when the two aggressors began to chase his vehicle. The two men braked in front of the rabbi's van and then reversed back towards it while shouting anti-Semitic insults. "The rabbi then saw the driver light up an unknown object and throw it towards his van," the police said, adding that the rabbi could not explain what the object was.
The students managed to jot down the license plate of the attacking vehicle, which they reported to the police together with the complaint about the offense. Shmuel Segal, Teichtal's assistant, expressed the hope that police "would do all within their power to find the criminals." He told the 'European Jewish Press' that "This event encourages us to continue our Jewish oriented activities in the city. In every case we encounter instances of darkness. We are motivated to increase our efforts to spread out more light," Last year, a smoke bomb was thrown through a window of the community's kindergarten and anti-Semitic slogans were sprayed on its walls.
www.worldjewishcongress.org/
A few days before the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogroms in Germany known as 'Kristallnacht', a rabbi and eight rabbinical students were attacked in Berlin. Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, a Chabad Lubavitch rabbi in Berlin was returning in his vehicle with the students after attending a Jewish event in the city on Saturday night when the two aggressors began to chase his vehicle. The two men braked in front of the rabbi's van and then reversed back towards it while shouting anti-Semitic insults. "The rabbi then saw the driver light up an unknown object and throw it towards his van," the police said, adding that the rabbi could not explain what the object was.
The students managed to jot down the license plate of the attacking vehicle, which they reported to the police together with the complaint about the offense. Shmuel Segal, Teichtal's assistant, expressed the hope that police "would do all within their power to find the criminals." He told the 'European Jewish Press' that "This event encourages us to continue our Jewish oriented activities in the city. In every case we encounter instances of darkness. We are motivated to increase our efforts to spread out more light," Last year, a smoke bomb was thrown through a window of the community's kindergarten and anti-Semitic slogans were sprayed on its walls.