The German government have been subsidising the training of rabbis for several years, but the interior ministry recently announced that it would only fund Liberal rabbis from now on.
Anger as Germany cuts funding to Orthodox Jews
The German government has ignited a row with the country's Orthodox Jews after
it stopped funding the training of Orthodox rabbis.
"They like Liberal Jews because they are seen as easygoing, not reminding
them all the time about anti-Semitism and the Shoah [Holocaust],"
Stephan Kramer, the secretary-general of the Central Council of Jews in
Germany, told the paper.
Since the Second World War, Germany has been trying to re-establish a Jewish
presence in the country. There are now some 120,000 Jews living in Germany,
and many are Orthodox.
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An official at the interior ministry said that the government gives £4.3m each
year towards rebuilding Jewish life in Germany and said that the government
was not discriminating against any denomination.
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