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Police: Anti-Semitic insult preceded Frankfurt rabbi stabbing
By The Associated Press
Tags: Zalman Gurevitch, stabbing 

An anti-Semitic insult preceded the stabbing of a rabbi in Frankfurt that has drawn expressions of outrage and concern from local officials and Jewish groups, police said Monday.

Witnesses reported the attacker first spoke to the rabbi in an unfamiliar language as he walked down the street in the German city's Westend neighborhood Friday evening, police spokesman Manfred Feist said. Then, the man said in German "I'll kill you, you (expletive) Jew," before stabbing him and fleeing.

The rabbi, 42-year-old Zalman Gurevitch from the Chabad Lubavitch organization, was recovering Monday in a hospital as prosecutors announced they increased the reward for information leading to the arrest of his attacker to 4,000 (US$5,400) from 2,000 (US$2,700).
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Police were searching intensively for the attacker, who was accompanied by two women, Feist said. The women were being sought as witnesses, not as suspects, Feist said. The attack has brought expressions of concern and condemnation from local politicians and from Jewish groups. Gurevitch, who police said was recovering after emergency surgery, was visited in a hospital by Volker Bouffier, interior minister for the state of Hesse.

Local Social Democratic party leader Andrea Ypsilanti said the stabbing was an attack on the peaceful coexistence of religions and was directed against religious tolerance.

The European Jewish Congress said it was shocked and urged police to find the attacker. The current atmosphere of increased hate crime in Germany leads us to believe that anti-Semitism could be a factor, EJC president Moshe Kantor was quoted as saying in the statement.
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  1.   They must track down the culprit seriously 01:17  |  Bernadette 11/09/07
  2.   Increased hate crime? 01:36  |  Jonathan S 11/09/07
  3.   attack on rabbi 03:05  |  dave s. 11/09/07
  4.   Comes as no surprise 04:17  |  Boris 11/09/07
  5.   They were Israeli neo-nazis! 04:56  |  Got it! 11/09/07
  6.   Jonathan - What about the Jewish Neo Nazis in Israel? 04:58  |  Huh 11/09/07
  7.   Why are jews living in nazi land ? 05:52  |  Leonardo 11/09/07
  8.   Eye for an Eye...tooth for a tooth 06:04  |  Riad Elsolh Hamad 11/09/07
  9.   Riad 07:44  |  Connie 11/09/07
  10.   Why? 08:08  |  Hannah 11/09/07
  11.   culprit is a arab 08:09  |  Brit 11/09/07
  12.   # 8 Hamad - So Muslims rightfully suffer `islamophobia` ! 10:08  |  Paul Henzen 11/09/07
  13.   Hannah, that does not even make sense 18:55  |  bbl 11/09/07
  14.   The rabbi was attacked for being a Jew 19:47  |  Anna 11/09/07
  15.   An eye for an eye 19:59  |  Anna 11/09/07
  16.   #15 an eye for an ey 18:55  |  Lou Medel 20/10/07
  17.   Drug problems 11:53  |  Keops 20/05/08
  18.   @Leonardo 13:54  |  sanchez 20/05/08
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