Berlin rabbi hospitalised in hate attack

President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Dieter Graumann condemned the attack, saying he was “dumbfounded”.

Mr Graumann said the incident represented an “assault on our values, ones of tolerance and liberalism”.
European Jewish Congress President Dr Moshe Kantor said: “Life goes on in Europe after such events as the Toulouse murders, but for the Jewish community life does not return to normal.

“The murders created a wound in our communal psyche which is widened with every attack and the lack of a clear, concerted and institutional response means that it will not heal.”

Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said that he denounced the “antisemitic attack in the harshest terms”.