Chief Rabbi in France Attacked for Being Jewish

Minimized by what life would teach me years later, the drama of my childhood is more like a grotesque experience. A kind of anti-Semitism of production on a very small scale [...] Anyway, the most traumatic of the encounters with my designated persecutors did weigh heavily on the rest of my childhood and tore once and for all the veil of false security behind him. Once my mother, having made the purchase, came to pick me up at school. Those who …

Chief Rabbi in France Attacked for Being Jewish

The chief rabbi of Orléans, Rabbi Arié Engelberg, was violently beaten, kicked, and even bitten on the shoulder while walking home from synagogue with his nine-year-old son before the attacker fled after being confronted by a passerby.