В Калининграде на
территории старого еврейского кладбища, расположенного в районе Литовского
вала, неизвестные вандалы осквернили мемориальную доску в память жертв
Холокоста, сообщает
ИА REGNUM.

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Промышленный районный суд Ставрополя запретил распространение на территории
России ряда брошюр, подписанных монахом Афанасием

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Прокурор Советского района города Тулы утвердил 6 октября 2008 года обвинительное заключение по
делу об осквернении здания «Еврейского благотворительного центра», сообщает
информационно-аналитический центр «Сова» со
ссылкой на официальный сайт прокуратуры Тульской области.

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The AI report (in PDF format) finds widespread racist and antisemitic violence in Ukraine, and criticizes the reaction to it by law enforcement agencies.

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One of Russia's two competing chief rabbis, Beryl Lazar, used uncharacteristically alarming language in describing the threat posed to the Russian Jewish community by rising nationalism and efforts by the government to introduce compulsory Russian Orthodox Christian teachings in the public schools. It may be a coincidence, but Rabbi Lazar's interview was with a German news organization (Deutsche Weld), while just yesterday, he presented a more optimistic vision to a domestic audience.

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It's a sign of the times that the Kremlin first appointed Rogozin (former head of the far-right Rodina party) its NATO ambassador, and now has one of his allies at a de facto public diplomacy post in Paris. I wonder if the "British friend" that former Duma deputy Narochnitskaya mentioned is from the British Helsinki Group--an org that has no relation to the Helsinki Federation and has attracted controversy for its support of some post-Soviet and African dictators.

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On the one hand, Moscow's mayor Yuri Luzhkov publicly condemns xenophobia and last week called for harsher laws against hate speech and hate crimes, saying on April 15 that: "The government must ensure the tranquility of all people regardless of the color of their skin... Xenophobia is a disease that may eventually endanger this country. The main reason for such crimes is the absence of a real punishment." At the same time, his subordinates running the city's law enforcement agencies impudently contradict him and President Putin by denying that racist violence is a problem.

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В Житомире совершен акт вандализма на еврейском кладбище, сообщает УНИАН. В частности, сообщение об этом в житомирских СМИ распространили представители еврейской общины. По их данным, в ночь с 15 на 16 апреля неизвестные сожгли домик над могилой цадика раввина Аарона из Житомира, которого считают учеником основателя хасидизма рабби Исраэля Баал Шем-Това. Еврейская община заявляет о намерении обратиться в правоохранительные органы относительно расследования факта вандализма.

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The same month that a blood libel was distributed in Novosibirsk, Russia, the medieval accusation that Jews ritually murder Christian children popped up in Sumy, Ukraine. No word yet on any official reaction to these posters, which clearly violate Ukraine's law against public incitement of ethnic hatred.

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Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (UCSJ), a Jewish human rights organization that has worked in support of Jews in the FSU since 1970, is seriously concerned by media reports on flyers inciting violence against Jews in Novosibirsk, Russia last week. Hundreds of blood libel flyers were found posted on homes and apartments in that city warning parents to protect their children from "bloodthirsty Jews" ahead of April 2008 Jewish holiday of Passover. The flyers warned that "these disgusting people steal young children, draw their blood and use it to prepare their holy food. They throw the children's bodies in garbage dumps". This terrible and aggressive lie dates from the Middle Ages, when it regularly sparked pogroms, and was revived in the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the Beilis trial, and by Nazi Germany. Russian antisemites have used this xenophobic myth against Jews during the Soviet and post-Soviet period.

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