Some 11,000 Jews attended services at Moscow synagogues and a concert hall on the first night of Rosh Hashanah in what was believed to be the largest turnout for services in the Russian capital since the fall of communism. More than 5,000 gathered at the unfinished building of the Jewish community center, according to Moscow police. And about 1,300 young Jews attended a service organized by the Moscow Hillel organization and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee at the local Radisson hotel.
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