The Russian Jewish Congress plans to distribute nearly $2.6 million for communal projects, most of them in Moscow, according to the group’s 1999 budget. Created in 1996 with the backing of Russia’s leading Jewish business people, the group raises about one-tenth of the money spent in Russia on Jewish projects. The largest contributions to the Russian Jewish community come from the Jewish Agency for Israel, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and a private foundation affiliated with the Lubavitch movement.
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