(JTA) Cnaan Liphshiz - Participants in a street celebration in the Belgian city of Aalst paraded giant puppets of Orthodox Jews and a rat atop money bags on Sunday. The display was titled "Shabbat Year." Dutch Chief Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs condemned the float for containing "typical, anti-Semitic caricatures from 1939." The umbrella groups representing Flemish and French-speaking Jews in Belgium complained to the federal watchdog on racism that, "In a democracy like Belgium, there is no room for such things, carnival or not."
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