BBC/ A new coin issued by the central bank that honors Miron Cristea, an Orthodox Church patriarch, is being called anti-Semitic. The coin depicts Cristea, the prime minister who stripped Jews of their citizenship in 1939. Cristea headed Romania's Orthodox Church between 1925 and 1939, and was the country's prime minister from 1938-39. As prime minister, he changed a law that took away citizenship from 225,000 Jews.
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