When to Sound an Alarm for Jews Abroad?

Henry I. Sobel

1982

When should Jews in one country start protesting about what they perceive as the peril of Jews in another country?

To answer the question, we must first analyze the specific conditions of the endangered Jewish community: is it suffering discrimination in a country where non-Jews enjoy a greater measure of freedom? Does it have an organized…

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Henry I. Sobel

1944–2019

Born in Lisbon and brought up in New York, Henry Sobel was the rabbi of Congregação Israelita Paulista in São Paolo, the largest Jewish congregation in Latin America. He was former chair of the Inter-Religious Relations Department of the Latin American Jewish Congress for the World Jewish Congress.

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