A Swiss citizen who serves as Moscow’s chief rabbi recently was granted only a two-week visa instead of the one-year visa he has received in the past, according to the NCSJ, a group that monitors anti-Semitism in the region. In addition to the incident involving Pinchas Goldschmidt, Russian officials again searched through documents at the offices of Moscow’s Choral Synagogue, in what is being seen as part of a clampdown on free speech.
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