BERLIN (AP) - Germany's orthodox Jewish community is accusing the government of discrimination for not funding the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin while providing money to the country's only other seminary, which is more liberal.
For almost a year, orthodox Jewish leaders have repeatedly asked the federal government to support their seminary with the same amount of annual funding that it gives the liberal Abraham Geiger Kolleg _ about euro300,000 ($410,000) through the German Interior Ministry _ Rabbi Josh Spinner of the orthodox Rabbinical Seminary told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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