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In rare and delicate statement, Russia’s Chabad rabbis call to ‘end the suffering’

The plea comes amid praise by other clergy for the war that Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue.

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In exile from Russia, Pinchas Goldschmidt is formally out as Moscow’s chief rabbi after 29 years

An influential spiritual leader in much of Europe, he had left Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says

Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was briefly kicked out of Russia in 2005, is generally tight lipped about politics.

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Russian chief rabbi: ‘It would be nice’ if Russia’s Lavrov apologized for Hitler comments

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Kazakhstan’s Jews, who ‘steer clear’ of politics, are sitting out their country’s bloody unrest

Chabad rabbis from across the former Soviet Union pose for a group photo in Almaty, Kazakhstan on July 29, 2021. (Yehezkel Itkin)

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Chabad rabbis took their first group photo since the pandemic — and were fined by Kazakhstan for not distancing

Matzahs travel on the production line of the Tiferet HaMatzot factory in Dnepro, Ukraine on Dec. 8, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

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Jews in the former Soviet Union eat pounds of matzah per person — the most in the world — every year. Here’s why.

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Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

A view of a prison colony in the village of Shamkhal, Russia on 23 September, 2020. (Musa Salgereyev/TASS via Getty Images)

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Jewish prisoner in Russian penal colony goes on hunger strike to get Shabbat off

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Obninsk, Russia, home of the world’s first nuclear power plant, gets its first synagogue

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