JERUSALEM POST
‘Rabbis, get your dummy knives out, the simulation is starting’
by Dana Somberg
March 2, 2016

Rabbi Menacham Margolin, Head of the Center for European Rabbis, opened the Conference of European Rabbis in Berlin in a surprising manner on Wednesday. “Everyone, pick up a dummy knife so that we can simulate assaults,” he said. “It is important that the Jewish communities of Europe view their rabbis as examples, that they know how to protect themselves.” The library of the Berlin Chabad House was cleared of tables for the event. Instead of studying Torah, 150 rabbis gathered to undergo a course in self-defense. According to them, they simply had no choice. READ MORE