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Chabad rabbi severely beaten in Ukraine
Mendel Deitsch is in a critical condition, though the Chasidic group are not clear if it's motivated by anti-Semitism
A Chabad rabbi in Ukraine was severely beaten in the western city of Zhitomir, a spokesperson for the Chasidic group said, adding it is too early to tell whether the assault was a hate crime.
Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was assaulted at the city’s central train station early Friday morning, where he was discovered and transported to a local hospital, according to the statement on the website of the Chabad movement.
The Jewish Community of Zhitomir was alerted to the attack hours after the hospitalisation of Deitsch, who is in critical condition, according to the report. The motive for the attack remains unknown, the statement also said.
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