Polish police are holding a suspect in last month’s attack on the country’s chief rabbi, Reuters reported. A young man last month sprayed Rabbi Michael Schudrich with pepper spray on the day before Pope Benedict XVI was visiting, hit the rabbi and yelled “Poland for Poles,” before running away.
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