Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Miami Herald: Venezuelan Jews no longer feel safe - '...Such uncertainty has intensified Venezuela's Jewish emigration in the last six months, which in turn is reflected in the Hebrew schools in Miami, where there has been a significant increase in Venezuelan students, Chaim Botwinick, president/CEO of the Center for the Advancement of Jewish Education, an agency of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, told me. The agency has also received calls from Venezuelan families inquiring about educational options here. "There's no future in Venezuela for my children,'" said a mother of three young children ages 9, 6 and 2 who lives in Caracas and is now visiting Miami. "Since the synagogue incident in January, we Jews don't feel safe in Venezuela,'" she said, referring to the defacement of Tiferet Israel Synagogue. Like her, the majority of Jews in Venezuela fear retaliation if they publicly oppose the government...'
