Rabbis Levi Matusof, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Brussels, Belgium, and Baruch Myers, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Slovakia, presented a gift to European Commissioner Ján Figel’ on occasion of his 47th birthday this week.

They gave a copy of Toward a Meaningful Life: The Wisdom of the Rebbe in German to Figel’, a Slovkia native in charge of the Education, Training, Culture and Youth Portfolio.

The emissaries spent an hour discussing the state of education in Europe with the commissioner, who in the past has worked with Myers on education issues in his home country. ...