Plans to build a hotel for football fans on the site of the Babi Yar massacre in 1941 have been overruled by Kiev’s mayor. The approval of plans to construct the building near Ukraine’s Babi Yar monument, where 34,000 Jews were killed in 1941, had received widespread criticism, and at a meeting in New York last week, leaders of the World Jewish Congress asked Ukraine’s President Viktor Yushchenko to intercede on the matter.
Ukraine will co-host the 2012 European soccer championship, and there is a shortage of hotel beds in the capital Kiev. However, the decision to build the hotel was overruled by city mayor Leonid Chernovetsky. On Tuesday, President Yushchenko addressed the nation on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the tragedy and pledged to prevent any impiety to the Babi Yar victims. He also promised “a proper protection of this burial site.”
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Police decoys have helped reduce street crime. The “decoy Jew” has now been added to the police attributes.
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Ostrove told the Winnipeg Jewish Review that he had the opportunity to talk to a lot of European Jewish students, ages 18-35, about the their concerns, including anti-Semitism.
