Post by Logan on Jan 20, 2016 17:16:24 GMT -6
Here’s the least surprising news story of the still-young year: Jewish immigration to Israel from Western Europe reached an all-time high in 2015.
According to the Jewish Agency, as a link to the global Jewish community, 9,880 European Jews left their homes for Israel — the vast majority, close to 8,000, from France. That’s twice the level of just two years ago.
The reason’s obvious. Much of Western Europe has seen a definite and disturbing rise in anti-Semitism over the past 15 years. And nowhere more so than France — scene of a growing number of anti-Jewish attacks.
Just last week, in fact, a machete-wielding teen attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille. And last year saw the attacks on a kosher grocery store and the magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 17 died.
Continued at nypost.com/2016/01/19/the-other-refugees-why-jews-are-leaving-europe/ .
According to the Jewish Agency, as a link to the global Jewish community, 9,880 European Jews left their homes for Israel — the vast majority, close to 8,000, from France. That’s twice the level of just two years ago.
The reason’s obvious. Much of Western Europe has seen a definite and disturbing rise in anti-Semitism over the past 15 years. And nowhere more so than France — scene of a growing number of anti-Jewish attacks.
Just last week, in fact, a machete-wielding teen attacked a Jewish teacher in Marseille. And last year saw the attacks on a kosher grocery store and the magazine Charlie Hebdo in which 17 died.
Continued at nypost.com/2016/01/19/the-other-refugees-why-jews-are-leaving-europe/ .