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        11/4/2008, Cheshvan 6, 5769

      Hoodlums Attack Berlin Rabbi, Week Before Kristallnacht


      Anti-Semitic hoodlums attacked Berlin's Chabad Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal and eight of his students on Saturday night, a week before the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. On that day in 1938, Nazis led a brutal attack on German Jewish synagogues and businesses.

      Two men in a Mercedes Benz rammed into the rabbi's car in reverse, after having passed it just before.  The attackers yelled anti-Semitic insults and then hurled an unknown object at the victims, who managed to write down the license number of the hoodlums…

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