Jewish leaders called on authorities in Russia’s Kostroma region to crack down on a neo-Nazi group. Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar joined the national director of the Union of Councils for Jews in the FSU, Micah Naftalin, who wrote to Kostroma’s governor seeking a crackdown on Russian National Unity, the nation’s largest neo-Nazi group.
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