"Anti-Semitism is decreasing in Russia"

[davlet]

MOSCOW, March 24 (AFP) - Anti-Semitism is decreasing in Russia, with only six acts of vandalism in Jewish synagogues and cemeteries reported during the past half year, a Jewish community leader, Rabbi Berl Lazar, said on Sunday.
State anti-Semitism has been eradicated and the level of anti-Jewish behaviour in general in the country has dropped, said Lazar, one of Russia's two self-proclaimed chief rabbis and who represents the country's more Orthodox Jews.
"There were times when synagogues were vandalized and cemeteries desecrated virtually every week," Lazar was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
The chief rabbi met President Vladimir Putin and Nationalities Minister Vladimir Zorin last week to discuss the problems of the Jewish community.
"The Jewish community is rapidly growing and new Jewish
organisations, religious and cultural, are being established," Lazar noted.
But he complained the Russian capital did not have enough places of worship for Jews.
Moscow's Jewish community numbers at least 500,000, but there are only four synagogues in the city, far fewer than in European capitals or in New York.

[vorosilov]

Why don't they buid more synagogues in the Russian capital?

[nycrolite]

Because the punks will beat them down with empty vodka bottles and cigarette butts. Seriously tough, there's barely any jews left there, so there's no point.

[vorosilov]

Nycrolite,

But the article said that there are 500.000 jewish in Mockow alone.