Moscow’s Main Synagogue Vandalized
Vandals scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic epithets on Moscow’s main synagogue in the first such attack on the building in several years, its chief rabbi said.
The graffiti on the outer columns and walls of the Moscow Choral Synagogue appeared early Sunday, Rabbi Adolf Shayevich said.
He blamed the incident on “hooligans” and said it was probably not connected to religious tensions worldwide in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Jews in Russia have enjoyed rising fortunes since the Soviet Union collapsed, and Russian law enshrines Judaism as one of the nation’s three “traditional” religions, along with Orthodox Christianity and Islam.
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