Russian Jews in the city of Saratov are too worried about anti-Semitism to open a Sunday school there. A Jewish official recently was quoted in the media as saying that Jewish life in the central Russian city has become unsafe. In the most recent incident, more than 60 Jewish gravestones in the city were destroyed last month.
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