September 26, 2005
Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, has opened the new European Jewish Library in Brussels. Surrounded by Israel's ambassadors to Belgium and to the European Union as well as Chabad rabbis from all over Europe, Metzger announced that due to its location, “this is one of the most important libraries in the world.” The 3,000-volume library is housed in a Chabad center opened last year and is part of a growing presence of the Orthodox Jewish movement in Brussels, seat of most of the European Union institutions.