I read a 1938 LA Times newspaper article on Kristallnacht. German authorities were investigating and promised to bring all those guilty to justice, yada yada yada.
Members of the small Jewish community in the West German city of Bochum will no longer wear Kippot because of attacks on them by Muslim youths, they announced in November.
“Germans more than any other people in Europe should understand what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
The issue would be dealt with in the context of the German authorities’ “efforts to integrate newcomers into German life and values,” German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said.
“The German authorities, church leadership and NGOs have a moral obligation to ensure 21st-century German Jews will never have to hide their Jewish identities on the streets of Germany,” he added.
Cooper said he has not heard of any government efforts to rope in antisemitism among Muslim communities in the Federal Republic since his 2014 meeting with Maas.
German Jews stop wearing Kippot due to Muslim attacks
Members of the small Jewish community in the West German city of Bochum will no longer wear Kippot because of attacks on them by Muslim youths, they announced in November.
“Germans more than any other people in Europe should understand what starts with the Jews never ends with the Jews,” Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.
The issue would be dealt with in the context of the German authorities’ “efforts to integrate newcomers into German life and values,” German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said.
“The German authorities, church leadership and NGOs have a moral obligation to ensure 21st-century German Jews will never have to hide their Jewish identities on the streets of Germany,” he added.
Cooper said he has not heard of any government efforts to rope in antisemitism among Muslim communities in the Federal Republic since his 2014 meeting with Maas.
German Jews stop wearing Kippot due to Muslim attacks
