Chief Russian rabbi slams Ukrainian Jews for criticizing Putin

March 26, 2014

Glavni rabin Rusije  ( Berel Lazar)   kritizira lidere ukrajinskih Židova jer su kritizirali Putina i osudili akciju Moskve u Ukrajini.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, meeting with the Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, March 2005. (Kremlin)

"Židovska zajednica ne treba biti ona koja šalje poruke predsjedniku Obami oko njegove politike ili  Putinu ili bilo kojem drugom lideru" .rekao je Lazar u svom intrevju u Londonu. "Mislim da je to loše ponašanje." Lazar je glavna "Chabad" figura u Rusiji i odgovorio je na pitanja  u pismu od 5. ožujka za ruskog predsjednika  koje je poslalo  Udruženje židovskih zajednica i organizacija u Ukrajini (Vaad) nakon ulaska ruskih trupa na Krimski poluotok.

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...Several anti-Semitic attacks occurred during the unrest, including two stabbings in Kiev, some assaults of religious Jews, an act of vandalism at a Crimean synagogue and the attempted torching of another synagogue. Anti-Semitic violence typically is rare in Ukraine.

On March 3, Putin said the revolution was being led by “anti-Semites and neo-Nazis on a rampage.”

...Lazar suggested Ukrainian Jewish leaders did not feel free to decry anti-Semitic acts there. But Vyacheslav Likhachev, a Vaad spokesman, said it was Lazar who could not speak freely. “When Lazar speaks, it is as a person holding an official position, that of a religious leader in contemporary Russia and as such, it is impossible for him or any other person in his position to express views that do not align with the Kremlin’s official line and propaganda,” Likhachev