Anger as Germany cuts funding to Orthodox Jews

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There are now some 120,000 Jews living in Germany, and many are Orthodox.

The authorities have been subsidizing the training of rabbis for several years, but the interior ministry recently announced that it would only fund Liberal rabbis from now on.

Thomas de Maziere, the interior minister, blamed "the budget situation" for the decision, the Times reports.

However, the move has upset the Jewish community.

Jewish officials have claimed that the government made the decision because it no longer wanted to deal with Orthodox Jews.

"They like Liberal Jews because they are seen as easygoing, not reminding them all the time about anti-Semitism and the Shoah [Holocaust]," Stephan Kramer, the secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told the paper.

Since the Second World War, Germany has been trying to re-establish a Jewish presence in the country. There are now some 120,000 Jews living in Germany, and many are Orthodox.

An official at the interior ministry said that the government gives £4.3m each year towards rebuilding Jewish life in Germany and said that the government was not discriminating against any denomination.

[JamesTheJust]

The jews are just like the mamzer muds infecting the West; always whinning for a hand-out.

38Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

39Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

40Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.