Rising insecurity within the Jewish neighborhood in Potsdam – Muricas News

The anti-Semitic insult of the Potsdam Rabbi Ariel Kirzon in Berlin has triggered new uncertainty within the Jewish neighborhood in Brandenburg’s state capital. “We felt comparatively protected in Potsdam – not anymore,” mentioned the chairman of the Jewish neighborhood in Potsdam, Evgueni Kutikow, on Wednesday. Though the incident occurred in Berlin, the uncertainty is now additionally rising in Brandenburg. The Abraham Geiger School, which trains rabbis, can also be primarily based in Potsdam.

On the controversy concerning the safety of Jews, Kutikov mentioned that after the right-wing terrorist assault on the synagogue in Halle in 2019, the technical safety on the neighborhood heart had been elevated. There's a protecting fence, concrete blocks, video cameras and alarm methods. “We’re already in jail,” he mentioned.

Throughout church providers and celebrations on the Sabbath, a “watchman” who comes from the congregation sits in entrance of the door. The neighborhood, which has round 500 members, can't afford a contract with a safety service, mentioned Kutikov. At particular non secular celebrations with many visitors in the neighborhood heart, he turns to the police, who then include patrol automobiles. The Jewish New 12 months, Rosh Hashanah, is widely known on September twenty fifth.

In keeping with the police, Rabbi Kirzon was insulted in an anti-Semitic method on Tuesday morning in Berlin-Mariendorf and ran into on the shoulder as he walked along with his son on the sidewalk at Westphalweg underground station and made a telephone name in Hebrew. Video recordings on the subway station are to be evaluated.

Kirzon instructed the “Bild” newspaper that his garments additionally confirmed him as a Jew. “So I used to be clearly recognizable as a Jew when immediately an Arab-looking man insulted and attacked me. He yelled “Jude”, raised his palms, grabbed me. Each second I assumed he was going to hit me.” (dpa)