Pussy Riot is the Russian feminist punk group facing prison ostensibly for offending religious sensibilities when they launched a surprise performance in a Moscow church, but likelier for their critiques of Vladimir Putin and his increasingly autocratic tendencies.
They’ve attracted support all over the world, and on Friday, at a concert outside the Russian embassy here in Washington DC.
One of the bands performing Friday boasts social action lineage of the rabbinical variety.
Sad Bones has on guitars Danny Saperstein, son of Rabbi David, who directs Reform’s Religious Action Center, and on drums Emma Baker, daughter of Rabbi Andy, the director of international Jewish affairs for the American Jewish Committee and the point man on anti-Semitism for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
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