A 62-year-old engineer was elected president of CCOJB, the Coordination Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations, for the next three years, by the general assembly of the organization.
He succeeds Maurice Sosnowski who led the CCOJB for five years marked by a resurgence of anti-Semitism and the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in which 4 people were killed in May 2014.
The new president is in the ‘'continuity’' of his predecessor and his willingness to ‘'strengthen the constructive dialogue with the political authorities.’’
Serge Rozen is administrator of the Haim Foundation whose mission is to ‘'support institutions of the Jewish community.’’ Several CCOJB member associations have benefited financially from the Foundation donations.
The CCOJB, which presents itself as ‘’the umbrella of the Belgian institutions outside Judaism religious matters’’ is composed of thirty French-speaking Jewish associations, mainly in Brussels. Several Jewish organizations very active in Belgium do not belong to CCOJB whose representativity has been regularly questioned within the 30,000 member Jewish community.
The general assembly of CCOJB, which appoints its president, is made of 50 people.
In Flanders, the northern part of the country, the Jewish community of Antwerp is represented by the Forum der Joodse Organisaties whose president is Raphael Werner.A 62-year-old engineer was elected president of CCOJB, the Coordination Committee of Belgian Jewish Organizations, for the next three years, by the general assembly of the organization.
He succeeds Maurice Sosnowski who led the CCOJB for five years marked by a resurgence of anti-Semitism and the terrorist attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels in which 4 people were killed in May 2014.
The new president is in the ‘'continuity’' of his predecessor and his willingness to ‘'strengthen the constructive dialogue with the political authorities.’’
Serge Rozen is administrator of the Haim Foundation whose mission is to ‘'support institutions of the Jewish community.’’ Several CCOJB member associations have benefited financially from the Foundation donations.
The CCOJB, which presents itself as ‘’the umbrella of the Belgian institutions outside Judaism religious matters’’ is composed of thirty French-speaking Jewish associations, mainly in Brussels. Several Jewish organizations very active in Belgium do not belong to CCOJB whose representativity has been regularly questioned within the 30,000 member Jewish community.
The general assembly of CCOJB, which appoints its president, is made of 50 people.
In Flanders, the northern part of the country, the Jewish community of Antwerp is represented by the Forum der Joodse Organisaties whose president is Raphael Werner.