Former Chief Rabbi of Moscow Calls for Jews to Flee Russia After Top Defense Official Denounces Jews
(dailystormer.in)https://dailystormer.in/former-chief-rabbi-of-moscow-calls-for-jews-to-flee-russia-after-top-defense-official-denounces-jews/https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-moscow-chief-rabbi-calls-on-russia-jews-to-flee-after-top-official-attacks-chabad/In an article for the government-owned Argumenty i Fakty weekly newspaper calling for the “desatanization” of Ukraine, assistant secretary of the Russian Security Council Aleksey Pavlov had claimed that the country was home to hundreds of neo-pagan cults, including the Chabad-Lubavitch sect.
Pavlov’s remarks raised major fears among Russia’s Jewish community, which overwhelmingly identifies with the Chabad movement. Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar is himself a Lubavitcher, as are the vast majority of the rabbis in the country and throughout much of the former Soviet Union.
A spokesperson for the Russian Jewish community, Baruch Gorin, who is also a member of Chabad, told Israel’s Kan public broadcaster that Pavlov’s comments raised the specter not just of Jew-hatred but of an official policy of antisemitism by Russian authorities.
Now we are under pressure, wondering if what was published in the newspaper — this interview with a top security official — represents the start of an official wave of antisemitism. I think that would be the end of a Jewish presence in Russia. Official antisemitism would drive every Russian Jew out of the country,” he said.
