Anti-Semitism : racism against Jews & Israel

Tamas Raj, a charismatic retired chief rabbi and one of Hungary's top intellectuals, has died.

Raj, who worked to reduce the persistent misunderstandings that divide the Jewish and Christian communities of Hungary, died Monday following a long illness. He was 70.

A survivor of the Holocaust, he also suffered from prolonged police harassment under the ensuing anti-religious communist regime.

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