This time, European Jews have a place to go

by on July 29th, 2004

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/28/world/main632610.shtml

Just 10 days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon enraged French leaders by urging France’s Jews to leave for Israel, a group of 200 French Jews arrived to start a new life in the Jewish state, with Sharon at the airport to greet them.

As one émigré told CBS News Correspondent Mark Philips: “You wear something to say you are Jewish and you have difficulty. We are afraid. It’s simply that we are afraid.”

Marcos Rodriguez