One of Russia’s two chief rabbis has welcomed a pending German law that may slow down Russian Jewish immigration to Germany. “Jewish emigration from Russia is understandable and logical only when the emigration destination is Israel,” Adolf Shayevich said in a statement Tuesday.
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