Increasing Anti-Semitism in Europe and Terrorist Threats Keep Jews from Synagogue on Holy Days9/20/2016
"Seventy percent of European Jews will not go to synagogue on Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur this year, according to a poll released Tuesday. The survey was conducted last week by the European Jewish Association (EJA) and the Rabbinical Center of Europe (RCE) among a representative sample of 700 capital cities and communities in the periphery throughout Europe - from Britain in the west to Ukraine in the east." http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/70-percent-of-European-Jews-wont-go-to-shul-on-High-Holy-Days-despite-heightened-security-468210 The KGB was the Soviet Union's Secret Police force that often locked people up - and tortured them (and killed millions) - often for no other reason than that an individual's neighbors had ratted them out to the KGB. This article explains Vladimir Putin's intention to re-instate the KGB. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/19/russia-to-reinstate-the-kgb-under-plan-to-combine-security-force/ |
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