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  • The Politics of Intimidation

    05/04/2009 7:42:23 PM PDT · by ReformationFan · 11 replies · 681+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/1/09 | Melanie Kirkpatrick
    In 1998, the year Hugo Chavez was elected president, there were 22,000 Jews in Venezuela. Today the Jewish population is estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000. Those numbers tell a story, and it's not a happy one. The Jews of Venezuela are fleeing to Miami, Madrid and elsewhere because of the anti-Semitism they face at home. In an interview this week in Washington, D.C., the country's chief rabbi sounds a warning bell: "There's anxiety in the Jewish community because of what has happened," says Rabbi Pynchas Bremer, "and of course because of what may happen." Mr. Chavez's vitriol about Jews...