(Jewish Group) Moscow's former chief rabbi: 'The best option for Russian Jews is to leave'

[Behind the Aegis]

Pinchas Goldshmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow who fled the country earlier this year, said other Russian Jews should leave before it’s too late in an interview with the Guardian.

“When we look back over Russian history, whenever the political system was in danger you saw the government trying to redirect the anger and discontent of the masses towards the Jewish community,” Goldschmidt told the Guardian. “We saw this in tsarist times and at the end of the Stalinist regime.”

He argued that Russia’s floundering invasion of Ukraine is starting to foster a similar environment.

“We’re seeing rising antisemitism while Russia is going back to a new kind of Soviet Union, and step by step the Iron Curtain is coming down again. This is why I believe the best option for Russian Jews is to leave,” Goldschmidt said.

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Perhaps they should consider leaving before another pogrom comes along. I am sure many don't want to leave, but when would be too late? I wonder if they have non-Jews 'splainin to them too, how things could be worse.