AMSTERDAM (JTA) — Holland’s chief rabbi defended Dutch Christians Zionists against allegations that they were pressuring Ukrainian Jews into leaving for Israel.
The claims against Christians for Israel, a Netherlands-based international group that recently opened an office in Ukraine, came from Rabbi Ya’akov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, following the airing Tuesday of a documentary titled “Bring the Jews Home” in the Netherlands.
In it, Koen Carlier, a Belgian Christian who heads the Ukraine office, tells an old Jewish lady: “You have to go to Israel.” Referring to that scene in an interview published Thursday in the Dutch daily …read more
Source: JTA
