The chief rabbi of the Czech Republic launched a scathing attack on foreign Orthodox Jewish groups who are protesting plans to erect an office building in Prague over one of Europe’s oldest Jewish burial sites. Karol Sidon told JTA that the protesters are “not decent people” and claims he received phone calls from Jews threatening him and his family.
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