European Rabbis Condemn Closure Of Belarus Embassy In Letter To Netanyahu

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The Jerusalem Post reports: BOSTON – The Conference of European Rabbis weighed in on Jerusalem’s decision to close its embassy in Belarus, complaining of what it believes are the negative repercussions of the decision on the local Jewish community.

“This decision may overshadow the good relations with the growing Jewish community,” CER President Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt wrote in his letter Wednesday to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Ministry director-general Dore Gold.

“We are concerned about the implications, G-d forbid, for the remaining Jewish institutions and cemeteries where lie the great masters of Torah.”

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