Germans don Jewish skullcaps to protest anti-Semitism


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More than 2000 people – Jews, Christians, Muslims and atheists – put on kippas in a show of solidarity in Berlin.


The yarmulkes were of all varieties – silky and knitted, leathery, embroidered and patterned. Holding them so the wind wouldn’t blow them away, both men and women cheered when Berlin Mayor Michael Mueller told them, “Today, we all wear kippa. Today, Berlin is wearing kippa.”


Jewish community leaders said it was the biggest such display in public since before World War II.


Germans of various faiths donned Jewish skullcaps and took to the streets on Wednesday in several cities to protest an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin and express fears about growing hatred of Jews in the country.

Germans of various faiths donned Jewish skullcaps and took to the streets on Wednesday in several cities to protest an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin and express fears about growing hatred of Jews in the country.


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Elard Zuehlke, a 26-year-old non-Jewish Berliner, said he came to the rally in front of the city’s synagogue on Fasanenstrasse because “it cannot be that in Germany there is any kind of anti-Semitism – not in schools, not in public, not at work, not in politics, nowhere.”


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