Latvia’s Parliament is due to discuss a $57 million compensation bill for the Jewish community. The bill up for review Thursday, already approved by the Cabinet, says the money is to “compensate for the historically unfair consequences suffered by the Jewish community due to the Nazi Holocaust and Soviet occupation.”
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