The Chief Rabbi of Wroclaw, Rabbi Yitzchak Rapaport, was verbally attacked while he was sitting in a Wroclaw-Warsaw train; with the young attacker getting away. “I was simply sitting and reading a book in the first class compartment”, Rabbi Rapaport told the EJP Press. “This guy saw me wearing a yarmulke. He started shouting: What are you, a kike?”
For nearly ten minutes the youngster insulted the rabbi, threatened his life and waved his fists just in front of the rabbi’s face.
“I was afraid to react, because I didn’t know if he had a knife,’’ the rabbi said.
The rabbi kept calm, and eventually the youngster went away.
“The worst thing was that there were a lot of people around and no one reacted,” the Rabbi complained. “It really sounded serious.”
Rabbi Rapaport was born in Sweden and over a year ago he started working in Poland.
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8 Responses
it’s called harassment duh
This is a usual occurrence in this world! I don’t think it should be on the headlines.
3,
These people never cease to expose their hatred!
I have an acquantance who fired her polish maid after discovering that she had secretly put butter in her Friday Night chicken soup for weeks before she sacked her!
flatbusher get a life.. I’d like to see you try that with an African American sitting on train… see how quickly you are arrested or worse…
Chevra start caring guns never know how soon we will need them.
its time to seriously consider why arnt we all moving to eretz yisroel
galus is everywhere the eitza is not to move to e.y rather look in the mirror and fix our actions, in all ways.
Terrible:
I can’t see how anybody could possible live in the largest bais hak’varos in the world, Poland. And “a jew” there are plenty of Jew haters in Eretz Yisroel. Where I live we don’t have shuls desecrated regularly B”H. I don’t know about you.
The eitza is neither to move nor look in the mirror (looking in the miror and making sure we are dressed in accordance with the latest fashions always helps btw). we all need to follow the precedent set by our alta zayda yankev aveenu when faced with adversity and prepare for the worst while hoping for the best.
We need to follow his three pronged approach which includes (i) davening, (ii) showering the goyim with gifts (have a goyishe neighbor? make sure you give them all the traife food you get for free – like free samples or in mishshloach manos from someone who is not as frum as you. However, you should ask a rav first because maybe then you are getting hana’ah from the traife…it might depend on whether its traif alst basar v’chalav or nevaila/traife animal etc… ask a rav), and (iii) arming ourselves and preparing for defensive battle (like flatbusher said – I have to say it b’shaim oimro).
We should all realize though that simply adding tehilim after davening isn’t enough. It really takes a combination of all three prongs. we can ask hashem for help all we want but if we don’t give him a means to help us by (i.e. steps (ii) and (iii) above), it might not help…
once again hatered and ingnorance rule jews are hated the world over just for being jewish.If the person had been black it would be a hate crime but it was just a poor Rabbi in Poland where we are still hated so very much.Tell me what have we done to anyone we have giving the world art;science;litature and music etc…you are welcome.