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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/14927/full/14927/rabbi-in-berlin-assaulted-while-trying-to-do-a-mitzvah/ <br /><br /> <b>Rabbi in Berlin assaulted while trying to do a mitzvah</b> <br /> Friday, January 26, 2001 | by <p>ROME (JTA)—Berlin Rabbi Walter Rothschild says he has no plans to leave Germany or change his routine following an anti-Semit </p> <br /><br /><p>The incident took place at about 10 p.m. Jan. 10 as Rothschild, the British rabbi of a Reform congregation in Berlin, was returning with two of his students after teaching a course.<br /><br /> When three "Middle Eastern-looking" youths began hassling the driver of a subway train, Rothschild stepped in.<br /><br /> For his trouble, he was punched in the face, had his glasses broken, and required stitches.<br /><br /> "I was trying to calm things," he said. "One of the lads asked if I was a Jew, and when I said was, he responded, 'I hate all Jews.' "<br /><br /> One of the youths grabbed Rothschild's hat, and one without warning punched him in the eye. The trio then ran.<br /><br /> "On the one hand, it was clear that I was identified as a Jew, so" the incident "was anti-Semitic," Rothschild said. "On the other hand, I strongly suspect that at least two of the three youths were as shocked and scared as I was that the situation developed the way it did, so quickly.<br /><br /> The youths, he said, "were not skinheads, were not neo-Nazis. His attackers "were three teenagers possibly slightly drunk, certainly out of bed too late at night, excitable—too much testosterone and not enough common sense."<br /><br /> Rothschild said all three youths had been apprehended by police. He said he had met one of them and had accepted his apology.</p> <p> </p>

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