Rabbi Dovber Baitman was walking home from synagogue Thursday night when he noticed the men following him. They stayed with him for about four blocks, even passing a mall where video cameras captured their images, said the rabbi.
They waited to attack until Baitman, an educator at the Shiurey Torah Jewish educational center, entered his yard.
Attack Ends Lull in Anti-Semitic Attacks
DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine — After a relative lull in overt anti-Semitism in Dnepropetrovsk, four men attacked one of eastern Ukraine city’s Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis.
Rabbi Dovber Baitman was walking home from synagogue Thursday night when he noticed the men following him. They stayed with him for about four blocks, even passing a mall where video cameras captured their images, said the rabbi.
They waited to attack until Baitman, an educator at the Shiurey Torah Jewish educational center, entered his yard.
“They started beating me, and when I hit them back, one man fell down and one of them pulled out a knife,” said Baitman, who added that the attackers shouted anti-Semitic slurs during the melee. “I screamed, and they ran away.”
While pictures showed several bruises to his face, Baitman said that he’s “half okay.”
oy vey
Omg, may he have a complete refuah shleima and be “fully okay”
thinking of you
refuah shleima
refuah shleima
boruch ben tzvi(A H)hakohaine hoffinger
B”H
Refuah shelaima!
Horrible! Awful!
Where’s the law? Where’s the fear of
the law?
I hope these criminals get all their
teeth knocked out and become disabled
for life. They’re chaiv misa.
BigBen
Some more proof that you really can’t trust the Russkies and the Pollacks. They want your money and the tourism dollars and they pretend to be nice to you, but in their hearts they have only contempt and hatered towards all yiden (jid).
I hope the shliach (Baitman) has a Refuah Shleima and the anti-semites meet prompt justice (don’t hold your breath for the justice part)
tired of racism
When so many of us are of Russian and Polish decent, I think that it is ignorant and racist to use such terms as “russkies” and “pollacks”.
Shame on you.
While some people of those nationalities are certainly anti-semetic, it doesn’t mean they all are, and using those words is a dishonor to your ancestors.
We, as a community seek better tolerance and understanding from outsiders, and this is how we behave? It’s not going to happen any time soon as long as we behave like those that hate us.
refuah shleima to the shliach.
Yiddn
Refua shleima
Chen
every jew with a .22!!