A student at a kollel, an institute for full-time, advanced Talmud study for married men, was stabbed in Kiev on Friday evening.
It was the second attack on a Jewish target in the Ukrainian capital in under a week.
Three youths ambushed the victim as he made his way home from services at a synagogue in the Podil neighborhood, according to Hatzalah Ukraine, a local Jewish organization.
The assailants beat their victim, Dov Ber Glickman, 28, before stabbing him three times in the feet and fleeing, Chabad emissary Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman said.
Glickman made his way back to the synagogue where he collapsed. He was taken to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery on his foot.
Hatzalah Ukraine called for increased security at synagogues in response to the recent “serious anti-Semitic incidents.”
Speaking to the Post from the hospital on Saturday evening, Asman said that Glickman who also goes by the name Boris Sherba, was beginning to improve but that he had “lost a lot of blood” and was still unable to walk.
On Shabbat a week ago, four men followed an Israeli-born Hebrew teacher, home from synagogue and beat him.
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The Ukraine is experiancing anti-government protests and clashes due to the governments affilaition and support of Putin’s Russia. The Protests are purported to be pro-western, but the Ukraine is unstable and instability always brings nationalists, anarchists, and anti-semites out of the wood work. I’m not on the ground in the Ukraine, so I don’t know for sure, but if I were an outwardly identifiiable Jew in the Ukraine, I would not be suprised if these attacks continue, unfortunately.
take a good look at that “hospital” room. that’s what obamacare is aiming for.
Please provide full name so we can daven for his speedy recovery.
NAME FOR TEHILLIM!?
omg.
Attacks on identifiable Jews in the former Soviet Union seem to be becoming more and more common, WHY?