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April 19, 2016

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Australia: Man Stabbed at Kiddush Following Herring Dispute

“That’s not a knife…”

Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia Photo Credit: Australia News7

Synagogue in Melbourne, Australia
Photo Credit: Australia News7

During the Shabbat morning kiddush at a synagogue in Melbourne, Australia, one of the men stabbed his fellow synagogue mates, moderately wounding him in the upper body, according to a report in Kikar Shabbat.

The Age reports the attack happened near the Yeshiva Synagogue.Kikar HaShabbat says it happened at the Rambam Synagogue.

According to witnesses, a fight broke out between the two over some herring that one didn’t want to pass to the second. The man then picked up a knife and stabbed the other man, to the shock of everyone else there.

Hatzalah quickly treated the man and he was taken to the hospital.