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Former Moscow Chief Rabbi branded 'foreign agent' by Russia

Pinchas Goldschmidt fled Russia last year after pressure to support Putin's war

By Josh Kaplan

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FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 26: Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis, during the ordination ceremony of Nosson Kaplan, Benjamin Kochan, Jochanan Guggenheim, to become Orthodox rabbis at the Westend synagogue, on September 26, 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany. The three men, who completed their rabbinical studies at the Rabbiner Seminar zu Berlin and are the first Orthodox rabbis to be ordained in Frankfurt since World War II, will serve Jewish communities across Germany. (Photo by Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images)
Russia's national flag is seen lowered on top of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, on December 20, 2016, following an attack that led to the death of the Russian ambassador in Turkey a day earlier. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stands in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on April 4, 2022. - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on April 3, 2022 the Russian leadership was responsible for civilian killings in Bucha, outside Kyiv, where bodies were found lying in the street after the town was retaken by the Ukrainian army. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Zelensky has helped slash antisemitism in Ukraine says ADL

By Menachem Wecker

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) speaks with Russia's chief Rabbi Berel Lazar at a ceremony marking the handover of the Schneerson library at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, on June 13, 2013 . Putin expressed today hope that the problem of a disputed Jewish archive, known in Russia as the Schneerson library, claimed by the United States was finally put to rest as he visited the rare collection in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / YURI KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)
Ben Judah

By Ben Judah

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US President Joe Biden speaks during the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference at the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 1, 2023. (Photo by Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Joe Biden hails ‘courage’ of Jewish American reporter detained in Russia

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TOPSHOT - A woman stands in front of a destroyed building after a Russian missile attack in the town of Vasylkiv, near Kyiv, on February 27, 2022. - Ukraine's foreign minister said on February 27, that Kyiv would not buckle at talks with Russia over its invasion, accusing President Vladimir Putin of seeking to increase "pressure" by ordering his nuclear forces on high alert. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP) (Photo by DIMITAR DILKOFF/AFP via Getty Images)
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2PNC0JY Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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