Nairobi – A rabbi and his wife were injured in Kenya during a violent assault at their Jewish community center and synagogue in what they said was a robbery featuring anti-Semitism.
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Five men beat up Rabbi Shmuel Notik and his wife, Chaya Tuesday night, stealing computers, passports, food and religious items from their center in Nairobi, Ynet reported.
Chaya Notik was moderately inured, requiring surgery whereas the rabbi was lightly injured.
The robbers bound two yeshiva students who were present at the Jewish community center. They beat the rabbi after he tried to call police. The robbers beat the rabbi’s wife with sticks, threatening to kill her in her bedroom and hurling anti-Semitic insults at her, according to the report. She fled to the bathroom with her children and locked the door behind her, remaining there until police arrived, according to Ynet.
Nairobi has one of the world’s highest crime rates.
Notik and his wife settled in Nairobi in 2014. Days after their arrival, he was mugged in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi when six men armed with knives intercepted him on a dark street.
Notik — a follower of the Chabad-Lubavitch stream of Judaism who had moved to Kenya to serve local Jews just days prior to that incident in 2014 — gave the assailants his prayer book and a lapel pin, along with his shofar, the ceremonial horn that Jews blow on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.
I guess the warning of avoiding a Makom Sakanah doesn’t apply to shluchim
Did those cute little elephants in the background of that photo put on Tfillin today?
Every day is Kristallnach around the world. Jews need to defend ourselves and our property and families NOW. Stop being a schlep and fight back like the Israeli Zionists do.
Attention vosizneias- That’s not a picture of Rabbi Shmuel and Chaya Notik.
Savages in Kenya and Crown Heights.
Shimon (#5) hit the nail on the head; in Kenya, you can take those savages out of the jungle (from the jungle in Kenya, to the city in Nairobi), but you can’t take the jungle mentality out of those savages. There has to be better security at all Jewish institutions, including armed guards, alarms, better locks, one way windows, cameras, etc.