Chabad rabbis and human rights leaders said Russia’s refusal to give a book collection to American Jews is a violation of international law. Lubavitch leaders spoke Wednesday in Washington before the Helsinki Commission, a congressional panel on international religious freedom, and said the Putin government should give the Schneerson collection of books and documents to the organization’s headquarters in New York.
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