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Sunday, 17 February 2008

South Africans Take Dim View of Project Sydney

Dan Goldberg
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

South African Jewish leaders are fuming over a new initiative by Sydney's Jewish community to help Jews emigrate from Africa to Australia.

Zev Krengel, the national chairman of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, wrote a letter last month urging Jewish leaders to suspend Project Sydney, a joint initiative of the New South Wales Jewish Communal Appeal and the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies.

"Seldom in the history of our community has there been such outrage towards the Jewish community of another country," charged Krengel. "From around South Africa, I am receiving calls expressing disquiet."

He wrote later: "We there believe that it is distasteful in the extreme and embarrassing for South African Jews to have you launch a campaign through published advertisements and a high-profile visit to attract members of our community to Sydney."

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