{"id":186338,"date":"2014-02-24T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/24\/and-ukraine-returns-to-form\/"},"modified":"2014-02-24T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T02:19:00","slug":"and-ukraine-returns-to-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/24\/and-ukraine-returns-to-form\/","title":{"rendered":"And Ukraine Returns to Form\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not surprised that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-world-news\/1.575732\">a prominent Ukrainian rabbi has called for Jews to flee Kiev<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>He is that there have been credible threats against the Jewish community:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, called on Kiev&#8217;s Jews to leave the city and even the country if possible, fearing that the city&#8217;s Jews will be victimized in the chaos, Israeli daily Maariv reported Friday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I told my congregation to leave the city center or the city all together and if possible the country too,&#8221; Rabbi Azman told Maariv. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to tempt fate,&#8221; he added, &#8220;but there are constant warnings concerning intentions to attack Jewish institutions.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the paper&#8217;s report Azman closed the Jewish community&#8217;s schools but still holds three daily prayers. He said the Israeli embassy told members of the Jewish community to avoid leaving their homes.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fact that a significant number of of the protesters had ties to right wing nationalists, most notably the Svoboda party.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more the history of the Ukraine, and Kiev in particular has been extremely antisemitic <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Even By the Standards of the Russian Empire and the Republics of the Former Soviet Union<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the 200,000 or so Jews living in the Ukraine need to make arrangements for a quick exit.<\/p>\n<p>I expect to see synagogues to burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not surprised that a prominent Ukrainian rabbi has called for Jews to flee Kiev. He is that there have been credible threats against the Jewish community: Ukrainian Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, called on Kiev&#8217;s Jews to leave the city and even the country if possible, fearing that the city&#8217;s Jews will be victimized &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1114,1040,1049,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antisemitism","category-former-soviet-union","category-protests","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}