The Abu Dhabi conference was surely a significant indicator of an increasingly positive view on engagement with Jewry on the part of religious and political authorities in the region.
Through the Warsaw-based Shapiro Silverberg Central Europe Office and Brussels-based Transatlantic Institute, AJC is in regular contact with Latvian officials and diplomats.
This is one of the most serious physical attacks on the Jewish community since Poland threw off communism in 1989, and it recalls—for those familiar with the history of modern Poland—the aggressive antisemitism of the 1930s. For members of today’s Jewish community, which is experiencing a post-Holocaust revival in Poland, this was a traumatic event.