Meir Just was the Chief Rabbi

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 of Amsterdam

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. Just served as a spiritual leader

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 for the Dutch Jewish community for more than 45 years, until his death in 2010.

Just was born in 1908 in Vizhnitz, Bukovina

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 (now Vyzhnytsia

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, Ukraine

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) in 1908 to Rabbi Nison Just, gabbai of the Vizhnitser

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 Rebbe. He died at his home in Amsterdam

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 on 9 April 2010, at the age of 101. His memorial service was held at the Raw Aron Schuster Synagogue in Amsterdam and he was buried in Israel

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