{"id":9047,"date":"2014-11-16T19:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T17:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=9047"},"modified":"2014-11-16T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T11:17:59","slug":"antwerp-rabbi-stabbed-in-throat-while-walking-to-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=9047","title":{"rendered":"Antwerp Rabbi Stabbed in Throat while Walking to Synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/j-press.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishpress.com\/news\/breaking-news\/antwerp-rabbis-stabbed-in-throat-while-walking-to-synagogue\/2014\/11\/15\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antwerp Rabbi Stabbed in Throat while Walking to Synagogue<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><strong>By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Now will there be advice that Jews should not anger anti-Semites and not walk to synagogue?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.jewishpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Bye-Bye-Antwerp.jpg\" alt=\"One way to escape anti-Semitism in Europe: Orthodox family packs up in Antwerp on their way to moving to Israel.\" width=\"350\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>One way to escape anti-Semitism in Europe: Orthodox family packs up in Antwerp on their way to moving to Israel.Photo Credit: Johanna Geron\/FLASH90<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">An armed man in Antwerp stabbed a local rabbi in his throat and seriously wounded him while he and a companion were walking to synagogue Saturday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The rabbi reportedly is no in a life-threatening condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The attacker fled after stabbing the 31-year-old rabbi and police are searching for him. The man walking with the rabbi was not harmed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Anti-Semitism has become routine throughout Europe, especially since Hamas launched a missile war on Israel this past summer, angering Muslims after Israel decided to hit back instead of behaving like insecure Jews in a ghetto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThere were Jews in Holland before and after the Holocaust, but what is happening today reminds many of them of the situation before World War II. I am very careful not to make such comparisons, but on the other hand, I am against turning a blind eye,\u201d the Chief Rabbi of Netherlands, Rabbi Binyamin Jacobs, told the Yediot Acharonot newspaper on Friday, before the stabbing of the rabbi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He added, \u201dAnti-Semitic incidents occur on a daily basis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Observant Jews also have been advised not to wear a kippa in the streets of Europe so they won\u2019t be targets for anti-Semites.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Will the same sages now suggest that Jew should stop walking to synagogue?<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 2px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">About the Author: <em><strong>Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu<\/strong> is a graduate in journalism and economics from The George Washington University. He has worked as a cub reporter in rural Virginia and as senior copy editor for major Canadian metropolitan dailies. Tzvi wrote for Arutz Sheva for several years before joining the Jewish Press.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"  content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #808080; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antwerp Rabbi Stabbed in Throat while Walking to Synagogue By: Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu Now will there be advice that Jews should not anger anti-Semites and not walk to synagogue? An armed man in Antwerp stabbed a local rabbi in his throat and seriously wounded him while he and a companion were walking to synagogue Saturday morning. 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