Romania’s central bank has set up a commission to determine if a newly minted coin is anti-Semitic.
The coin honors the late patriarch Miron Cristea, who as prime minister from 1938 to 1939 stripped Jews of their citizenship before World War II. Cristea led the Romanian church from 1925 to 1939.
The coin is part of a set commemorating the five patriarchs who have led the Romanian church since 1925, and was not dedicated solely to Cristea. — jta