THE TIMES OF ISRAEL: … In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, the head of the European Jewish Association, Rabbi Menahem Margolin, urgently requested that Israel “send trained security guards to protect Jewish communities in Ukrainian cities and towns.”
Ukrainian Jewish communities throughout the country are seriously concerned and feel helpless in the face of a “growing wave of anti-Semitic attacks,” the letter stated, citing the recent examples of a Molotov cocktail thrown at a Chabad center in the eastern city of Zaporozhye, a threatening phone message left for a rabbi in Kryvyi Rih calling for him to leave the city, and anti-Semitic graffiti found in Kiev and other locations…
During the crisis, various Jewish groups have tried to aid Ukraine’s Jewish population, which is estimated at between 350-400,000. The JDC sent a delegation to help elderly Jews affected by the turmoil, and, earlier this week, Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky announced that the agency would raise funds to increase security at Jewish institutions… (more)
