Russian Jewish leaders criticized a letter signed by Russian public figurescalling on the state to ban Jewish institutions as extremist organizations. “Wehope society will react properly to this statement,” one of Russia’s chiefrabbis, Berel Lazar, told a news conference Monday in Moscow that was devotedto the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.
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