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In Venezuela, 'People Are Terrified'
By Ana Julia Jatar on 6 Feb, 2009
The Jewish Weekby Stewart Ain and Sharon UdasinStaff WritersThe crisis in Venezuela deepened this week in the aftermath of the beating of a rabbi, Friday's attack on a synagogue and the growing exodus of Israelis from Caracas. All of this comes a month after Venezuela expelled Israel's ambassador and the embassy's staff because of Israel's offensive in Gaza. In New York Monday, more than 150 demonstrators shouting "Never Again" rallied outside the Venezuelan Consulate to protest the country's failure to protect its Jewish citizens.And in a letter this week to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed by 19 members of Congress, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx), the letter's co-author, expressed fear that the synagogue attack could lead to more Jews fleeing Chavez's hard-line rule. "It's difficult for me to say it was not government-instigated because nothing was stolen ... except the hard drives from the computers," Rabbi Isidoro Aizenberg, a former pulpit rabbi in Caracas who now lives in the U.S., said of the vandalism at Caracas' oldest synagogue. "I tremble when I say it." more »
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