Rabbis' expulsion worries Russia's Jews

LATimes ^ | 3/17/09 | Megan Stack

[anniegetyourgun]

Reporting from Moscow -- Two and a half years ago, a young Orthodox rabbi from New York set down in the port city of Vladivostok, family in tow. Yisroel Silberstein came with a mission, and he expected to stay for good.

Out on Russia's rough and tumble eastern frontier, Silberstein set out to revive a Jewish life that, he says, had almost disappeared. He reached out to several thousand local Jews, organizing services, holiday parties and a summer camp where children learned about Judaism and swam in the Sea of Japan.

[skeeter]

Meanwhile, Hollywood culture remains focused on events of 60-plus years ago, as if those were the last examples of institutional antisemitism.

I guess its harder for them to recognize bigotry that they can't hang a 'right-wing' tag on.

[anniegetyourgun]

xactly

[Atom Smasher]

That’s sad that those 2 rabbis were ousted that way...but it is good that the Russian chief rabbi spoke out that way. Separation of church and state!

[Atom Smasher]

It makes me wonder how many other countries do that sort of thing!