A Ukrainian rabbi was attacked on the street as he left a Passover seder. Two young men assaulted Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, his son and two other members of the Jewish community on Sunday evening in downtown Zhitomir in central Ukraine, as the men were heading home on the second night of Passover.
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