A top official in Germany warned that it could be dangerous for Jews to wear kippahs, or traditional skullcaps, in public amid a rise in anti-Semitic crime. “I cannot advise to Jews that they wear the kippah at all times everywhere in Germany,” Felix Klein, Germany’s commissioner on anti-Semitism, said in an interview published Saturday by the Funke newspaper group. Last year, Klein cautioned Jews against wearing kippahs while visiting big cities. “That’s particularly insulting to them.”Klein suggested Germany has “a very special duty” to protect Jews from anti-Semitic attacks because of the genocide perpetrated by the country’s Nazi regime during World War II. Approximately 6 million Jews ― roughly two-thirds of Europe’s Jewish population at the time ― were murdered in the Holocaust.

Source: Huffington Post May 26, 2019 14:41 UTC