As Jewish leaders debate community’s future in Europe, their kids are already leaving – Antisemitism and the dwindling of European Jewry are eroding the hopes of some devoted activists to raise families in the communities they run | Timesofisrael

All but two of Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs’ seven children have left their native Netherlands, raising their own children in Israel and beyond.
This means that the Dutch chief rabbi, whose family has lived in the Netherlands for generations, and his London-born wife Blouma rarely get to bask in the warmth of the large family they have devoted much of their lives to establishing.
But with dangerous echoes of past hatreds rebounding through Europe, the couple does not want their children to return.