Three cases of anti-Semitic violence occurred in Moscow in the past two weeks. A Jew from southern Russia was stabbed with a sharp object while riding on a Moscow tram Dec. 16. Mikhail Yusupov, 24, an Israeli citizen and native of Dagestan, was stabbed and wounded in his lung after three young Russians asked him about his ethnicity.
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