Two young men beat a Russian rabbi in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Rabbi Zalman Yoffe, 31, was attacked near his home in the city, which is located 250 miles east of Moscow. In May, two skinheads attacked another rabbi in a subway station in Moscow.
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