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Moscow Synagogue Firebombed

07/13/2011
JTA

A synagogue in Moscow was attacked with firebombs.

Four men wearing masks threw Molotov cocktails at the Darchei Shalom synagogue in northeast Moscow on Tuesday morning, Interfax reported. None of the bombs exploded and no one was injured.

Unnamed officials told news services that the attack could be revenge for the conviction Monday of five neo-Nazis on charges of murdering 27 people, mainly dark-skinned migrant workers.

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Chabad Emissaries at Bombed Moscow Airport: “It Was a Horrifying Scene”

01/24/2011

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who responded to the bombing at Moscow's busiest airport described a "horrifying scene."

In an e-mail to JTA, Rabbi Sheah Deitsch, one of a group of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who are first responders on behalf of the Moscow Chief Rabbinate, said that "families were screaming and wailing."

"They asked to speak to the Jewish rabbis, and we tried to uplift their spirits and told them that we were there for them for whatever they needed," he wrote.

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Teaching Talmud In Moscow

07/27/2010
Judith Hauptman
Special To The Jewish Week

Now that the Russian government permits the practice of religion, I often wonder what is happening to the Jews of Russia. This past May I found out. I spent the month in Moscow teaching Talmud at the Moscow State University for the Humanities. 

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