Kesher Talk

Remember last year when well-meaning German authorities were asking Jews to not wear yarmulkes in public, for their own safety? Well, this article is from last week.

It was a scene dripping with historical irony. On a street in this transformed former capital of Nazi Germany, a German man this week approached Philadelphia Rabbi Jacob Herber, here as part of a delegation of American spiritual leaders, and advised him to remove his kipa, fearing for his safety.

. . . A group of American rabbis this week was being warned repeatedly by a variety of Jewish community sources not to public identify themselves as Jews while walking through some sections of this bustling city. . . Along with the warning about their yarmulkes, the rabbis were cautioned also by Jewish officials in Frankfort and Berlin to keep a low profile.

. . .parts of Berlin and Brandenburg are unsafe for Jews to travel

because of well-organized, well-financed Muslim gangs, independent of Saudi financing, which intimidate the more moderate Turkish Muslims. Sound familiar?

posted by Judith @ 3/11/2003 02:57:34 PM