The more things change…. Reuters reports: “A leading member of Germany’s Jewish community had to point to a gun he was carrying to ward off a young man shouting anti-Semetic abuse, the latest in a string of racist incidents in Berlin that has shocked Jews.” Shocked? Maybe, but probably not surprised. “Last month, one of the first rabbis ordained in Germany since the Holocaust, Daniel Alter, was beaten up on a Berlin street in front of his young daughter by four attackers, prompting a seminary to advise its students to avoid wearing skullcaps in public. …Anti-Semitic attacks are commonplace and policemen guard synagogues around the clock.”