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King_David

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Fri Jun 20, 2014, 11:35 AM Jun 2014

European Jews rally for missing Israeli teens

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (JTA) — Dozens of young rabbis serving in Europe gathered at an Amsterdam Holocaust monument to protest the abduction of three Israeli youths.
The demonstrators, members of the Young Rabbis Forum of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, gathered on Wednesday at the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater turned commemoration site. The Nazis used the site as a central dispatch point for sending Jews to death camps shortly after Germany’s invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.
Roger van Oordt, executive director of the Netherlands-based organization Christians for Israel, also attended.
The rabbis carried a large banner reading “#Bring Back Our Boys” and a Dutch translation of the sign, a reference to Gil-ad Shaar, 16; Naftali Frenkel, 16; and Eyal Yifrach, 19, who were last seen on June 12 at a hitchhiking post near Gush Etzion, a Jewish settlement bloc in the West Bank. The three are presumed to have been abducted by Palestinian terrorists.


Read more: http://www.jta.org/2014/06/19/default/european-rabbis-congregants-call-for-release-of-abducted-teens#ixzz35C5s2B00

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