The car braked suddenly and reversed towards the van in the western district of Charlottenburg just after midnight on Sunday morning, police said in a statement. "The driver and passenger of the Mercedes repeatedly shouted out anti-Semitic insults from their vehicle."
The 36-year-old rabbi then saw them set fire to an object and hurl it towards the van, the statement said. Police have launched an investigation.
More than 530 anti-Semitic criminal offences were registered in Germany in the first half of 2008 alone. There are frequent reports about Jewish sites getting vandalized and daubed with Nazi symbols.
On average, according to statistics cited by members of the federal parliament, one Jewish cemetery each week is vandalized in Germany."
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