January 12, 2015

Increasing Emigration Of European Jews To Israel




[From article]
In the wake of the attacks, which follow deadly strikes on a Belgian Jewish Museum and a Jewish school in southwestern France, Israeli leaders have called on European Jews to immigrate to the Jewish state. But European Jews are deeply ambivalent about leaving, and their community leaders, along with top politicians, have urged people to stay in their homelands.
"The European Jewry is the oldest European minority and we have our experience of surviving under all possible circumstances," Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress, told The Associated Press. "We will not give up our motherland, which is called Europe. We will not stop the history of European Jewry, that is for sure."
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Experts say European Jews have not felt this threatened since World War II, when some 6 million Jews were murdered in the Nazi Holocaust. Researchers at Tel Aviv University monitoring anti-Semitism have reported a chilling increase in attacks in Europe over the past decade, including deadly shootings in Toulouse, France, in 2012 and Brussels last year. In recent years, France has had the highest number of incidents of any single country.
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Security officials and Jewish leaders in Italy, Britain, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria confirmed increased surveillance of vulnerable sites without providing details.

http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/01/12/kosher-market-attack-deepens-fears-among-european-jews

Kosher Market Attack Deepens Fears Among European Jews
Jews scrutinize future in Europe against emigration to Israel after Paris market attack.
Associated Press
Jan. 12, 2015 | 6:36 a.m. EST
By COLLEEN BARRY and ARON HELLER


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