On Wednesday, May 16, Beit Bella synagogue — the only one in modern Estonia — was opened in Tallinn. The building, which served as a synagogue in the beginning of the 20th century, was destroyed during WWII.
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May 17, 2007Museum authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp have closed a Russian exhibition after Moscow changed it to describe eastern European citizens as Soviet, the AFP news agency reported April 4.
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April 4, 2007Neo-nazis scrawled swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the walls of the main synagogue in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Friday.
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March 2, 2007One of Russia’s two chief rabbis backed his country’s graduation from the Jackson-Vanik amendment.
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February 23, 2007
Moscow has protested against the distortion of history and attempts to conceal the truth regarding Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday, the RIA-Novosti news agency reports.
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December 14, 2006
Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
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December 6, 2006
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