More than 500 Jews left a Russian region last year that Stalin established as a “Jewish homeland.” The 2001 exodus left fewer than 7,000 Jews in Birobidzhan, which sits along the Russian- Chinese border. More than half of those who left last year went to Israel or Germany.
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