Moscow – Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is the first Russian head of state to visit Birobidjan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region.
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Medvedev was accompanied by Russia’s Chief Rabbi and senior Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Berel Lazar. Rabbi Lazar led the President on a tour of the local Jewish community center. The visit is part of a four day tour of the Russian Far East, where Medvedev will meet with members of the business community and attend a series of meetings at the city’s cultural center, synagogue and furniture factory.
The Rebbe would cry from joy after all the pain and suffering the previous Rebbes went through
thank god the russians are not putting the jews in prison for practicing their religion .
let me see the nice u.s. obama should do this
I never heard of a Jewish autonomous region in Russia. What is it all about?
Kenahorah, I wish my grandfather would have been alive to have seen this. He was conscripted into the Russian Army around 1908.
If only the communist Yidden who vote Democrat in Century Villages in Broward and Boca Raton would emmigrate back to their communist homeland….
Biribidzhan and the whole Autonomy was created by Stalin imach shmo to send all iden to Sibiria, but it should look like he is giving them their own place.a lot of iden were loored into it and they moved there. It is 7 days by train from Moskow or 12 hour flight by plane (to NY from Moskow is only 10 hours)
Kol Hakavod!
CHABAD! Your doing a great job!