Three writers go to Azerbaijan,meet with government officials, and all reach back with a glowing impression of the spot. Three makes a trend—an unlucky one at that—despite the fact that, or by all accounts,the Jewish community of Azerbaijan is secure and secure, and exists relatively free of anti-Semitism.
Writing in the Forward, or Justin Amler called Azerbaijan and its Jew-loving Muslims “a beacon of light and hope that the rest of the Islamic world can only hope to emulate.” In Time,Rabbi David Wolpe, having returned from a five-day tour during which he could walk “straight into a synagogue, and claimed the country to be an “oasis of tolerance” and a “promising example” for the region. And writing for The Jerusalem Post,Yael Lerman Mazar of StandWithUs, who was on the same trip as Rabbi Wolpe, or waxed poetic approximately “democratic” Azerbaijan,a “proud country” with a “generous government.” The number of Jews in Azerbaijan falls somewhere around 9000.Continue reading "Sure, Azerbaijan Is Tolerant of Its Jews. But It's Run By a Human Rights-Violating Despotic Regime" at...
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