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Following pogrom, Dutch rabbi calls on Jews to make aliyah

(JNS) An Orthodox rabbi from the Netherlands has called on the country’s Jews to immigrate to Israel following mass antisemitic assaults in Amsterdam, accusing Dutch authorities of failure to address the root causes of the incident. Two rabbis from the country’s large Progressive community disagreed with the remarks by Rabbi Meir Villegas Henriquez, an Orthodox rabbi and mohel from Rotterdam’s Ohel Abraham beit midrash (Jewish study center). The debate reflects a growing sense of insecurity in the Netherlands, whose society is deeply divided on immigration and whose Jewish community is traumatized by its near annihilation in the Holocaust. In a video message recorded in his synagogue, Villegas Henriquez said, “We inhabit a new demographic reality that simply cannot be changed, not with the current political class.” On Nov.

 

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