PARIS (JTA) — The summer drizzle that soaked the French capital did little to dampen Yechiel Eckstein’s enthusiasm as he arrived with his wife Joelle to the city’s Great Synagogue for a private tour of this epicenter of French Jewry.
An Israeli-American Orthodox rabbi who grew up in Canada, Eckstein was in Paris in June to oversee a major action by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews — the philanthropy empire that he built in 1983, which now brings in $180 million annually in donations from Christian philo-Semites.
Reacting to the proliferation of anti-Semitic violence in France and the record-setting Jewish …read more
Source: JTA
