15.03.2013                      04.Nisan. 5773

Jüdische Welt:

Ukrainian Jewish leaders spar over JAFI meeting

Ukrainian Jewish leaders protest gathering of JAFI board of governors in Kiev; opponents say confab sanctions anti-Semitism.

Josef Zissels, chairman of the Vaad of Ukraine and of the General Council of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, sent a letter protesting against the conference to the agency’s chairman Natan Sharansky and members of its board stating that his opposition was due to the unmistakable “assault on political and social rights and freedoms of Ukrainian citizens”….