Russia’s main Jewish group called on religious individuals to boycott Madonna’s upcoming Moscow concert. “Regardless of whether she uses religious symbols or not, a person observing religious and moral norms has nothing to do at her concert,” Boruch Gorin, a spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, told Interfax on Wednesday.
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