UKRAINE (JTA) — A drunken man broke into a synagogue in western Ukraine and assaulted a congregant after shouting about “beating up the kikes.”
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The incident occurred Tuesday in Vinnytsia, according to a Facebook post by Eduard Dolinsky, the director of Ukraine’s Jewish Committee. The man, who was identified by police as a 42-year-old native of the nearby town of Yampil, “attacked Igor Braverman, a well-known journalist and a member of the community, trying to strangle him, wringing his hands, spat upon the portrait of Hafetz Haim and crushed it.”
The Hafetz Haim is an influential rabbi who died in 1933.
Police took 20 minutes to arrive. They detained the alleged attacker but did not take him into custody. An ambulance took Braverman to a hospital. He did not suffer serious injuries, according to Dolinsky.
The Monitoring Antisemitism Worldwide watchdog group said the Ukrainian interior ministry later assumed responsibility for the case and is handling it as a hate crime.
It’s very important to have a large kehillah of Jews in this hate-ridden country…Moshiach will only come this way…Yidden can only daven if they have representatives at Rav Nachman’s kever throughout the year…
They should have jumped him and beat him to a pulp then moshiach will come when jews aren’t desecrated
If Jews should not live just as much inn the Ukraine. Ukrainians are the worst anti-Semites. Even in Buchenwald there some and the attacked Jews but were stopped and beaten by political priosners. Western Ukraine particularly Lemberg, then Lwow and now Lviv did not wait for the Nazis to start but they killed and raped women. It is on the Internet Pogrom in Lviv 1941 or Lwow. YSHM the western Ukrainians or as the Nazis called SS Stanmdarte Galizien
sounds like de blasio’s crown heights, the Ukrainians specialty during WWII was actually not raping Jewish women before killing them, their speciality was tearing apart live Jewish babies limb by limb in front of their parents, keep giving money to these anti-Semites though.