Letter calls on government to offer asylum to minimum of 10000 legitimate refugees’ in next six monthsMore than 100 rabbis bear delivered a letter to David Cameron urging him to accelerate and expand proposals for the UK to take in refugees fleeing the civil war in Syria,reminding the prime minister of those who welcomed Jews fleeing the Nazis final century.
Among delegates handing in the letter at No 10 on Monday morning were two people who came to the UK on the Kindertransport, which rescued 10000 Jewish children from the Nazi threat between 1938 and 1940. Many of the rabbis who signed the letter were the children of refugees.
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Source: theguardian.com