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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 472

Berel Lazar

Rabbi Chaim Danzinger reads the Book of Esther at the synagogue of Rostov-on-Don on March 24, 2024. (Courtesy of Jewish Rostov)
March 26, 2024, 4:12 pm
Russian rabbi: Moscow terror attack ‘an unquestionable imitation of Oct. 7 in Israel’
Grief over massacre of more than 130 revelers compounds Russian Jewish community’s sorrow over Hamas attack and leads to canceled or muted Purim holiday events
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Boruch Gorin. (Courtesy)
October 31, 2023, 1:51 pm
In rare rebuke, top Russian rabbi calls antisemitic airport riot ‘eternal disgrace’
As more details emerge on who was on mob-targeted plane and what they went through, Boruch Gorin criticizes state authorities in Dagestan for failing to prevent attempted lynching
By Canaan Lidor
Rioters at the airport in Makhachkala, Dagestan, October 30, 2023, shout antisemitic slogans as they protest the arrival of an airliner coming from Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP)
October 29, 2023, 11:55 pm
Rioters storm airport in Russia’s Dagestan in hunt for Jews aboard flight from Israel
Mob breaks into terminal and onto tarmac, responding to call to ‘avenge Gaza’; airport eventually cleared, 60 arrested; PM urges Moscow to ‘protect all Israeli citizens, all Jews’
By Canaan Lidor
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Friday, January 20, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
January 21, 2023, 8:28 am
Putin fires top official who described Chabad as a supremacist cult
No reason given for dismissal of assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council Aleksey Pavlov, but reports noted his controversial statement
By ToI Staff
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev speaks at a trilateral summit with Israel and the United States at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton\Flash90)
October 28, 2022, 5:13 pm
Top Russian security official apologizes after deputy calls Chabad a cult
Spokesman for Russian Jewish community says he appreciates the retraction, notes historical rarity of a Russian general apologizing for antisemitism
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)
October 27, 2022, 2:59 pm
Ex-Moscow chief rabbi calls on Russia Jews to flee after top official attacks Chabad
Community finds itself in the crosshairs after Russian national security official calls Hasidic sect, the largest Jewish movement in the former Soviet Union, a supremacist cult
By Judah Ari Gross
File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (left), during a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)
October 26, 2022, 2:40 pm
Russian chief rabbi protests as top official describes Chabad as a supremacist cult
In an article calling for the ‘desatanization’ of Ukraine, Russia’s assistant national security adviser includes Chabad-Lubavitch in his list of ‘neo-pagan cults’
By Judah Ari Gross
Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar addresses a gathering of Russian rabbis in Moscow on September 5, 2022. (Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)
September 6, 2022, 8:55 pm
Russian rabbis meet in Moscow to discuss growing unease amid war, call for peace
Conference statement includes thinly veiled criticism of rabbis who’ve fled Russia due to their open opposition to its invasion of Ukraine
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Visitors look through books before Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to the library of the Schneerson family of Hasidic rabbis in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
May 21, 2022, 9:28 pm
In trying to seize Russian assets, the US is taking a page from Chabad
The Brooklyn-based Hasidic movement has tried to regain a grand rabbi’s treasured library from Russia for decades. After the Ukraine invasion, it may have the leverage it seeks
By Asaf Shalev
File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (left), during a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)
May 3, 2022, 11:38 pm
Russian chief rabbi: ‘It would be nice’ if Lavrov apologized for Hitler comments
In rare internal criticism, Berel Lazar calls diplomat’s false claims of Nazi dictator’s Jewish roots ‘shocking’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, right, listen to businessman Viktor Vekselberg speak at a ceremony outside the Jewish Museum of Moscow, Russia, on June 4, 2019. (Courtesy of the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center of Moscow/via JTA)
April 3, 2022, 4:22 pm
Ukraine invasion puts Chabad of Russia ‘between a rock and a hard place’
The group is simultaneously dealing with strict government laws on speech, a Russian support base crippled by sanctions, and potential Western donors who want stronger condemnation
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
March 3, 2022, 10:42 pm
‘Putin’s rabbi’ calls for end to war in Ukraine, offers to mediate
Berel Lazar says he’s ready to do anything ‘to silence the guns and to stop the bombs,’ after Ukrainian rabbis rail against invasion
By Judah Ari Gross
Siberian Jews celebrate the opening of a new Jewish education center in Tomsk, Russia, Sept. 12, 2021. (Levy Kaminetzky via JTA)
September 17, 2021, 3:15 pm
Siberian Jews inaugurate a huge new Jewish education center in Tomsk
About 200 Jewish children are enrolled in the institution, which features a robotics lab, modern furnishings, pottery workshops and table tennis stations
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A view of the modest former nuclear power plant control room in Obninsk, Russia, which is now a kind of museum. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis via Getty Images via JTA)
October 8, 2020, 2:16 pm
Russian home of world’s first nuclear plant gets first synagogue
Around 400 Jews live in Obninsk, outside Moscow, built to house staff of power station; prayer services to be held on Shabbat only, to start
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Jewish worshipers pray at the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Mount Meron, in northern Israel, on June 21, 2020. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 23, 2020, 6:37 am
To find meaning in a pandemic, top religious leaders offer ‘Coronaspection’
A project by a Jerusalem-based interfaith organization brings online reflections of prominent faith leaders, including the pope and European chief rabbis, on the virus
By Marissa Newman
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