MOSCOW - Skinhead Stabs 10 At Synagogue
MOSCOW - A man armed with a hunting knife stabbed and wounded several people in a Hassidc synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya in downtown Moscow, ten people had been hospitalized in the attack at the Polyakova Synagogue.
A secretary at the synagogue said, that the attacker wounded several of them seriously, they heard people screaming as the man stabbed them, but the man himself did not appear to say anything.
The man was wrestled to the ground by the son of a rabbi, and detained by police and being questioned.
A secretary at the synagogue said, that the attacker wounded several of them seriously, they heard people screaming as the man stabbed them, but the man himself did not appear to say anything.
The man was wrestled to the ground by the son of a rabbi, and detained by police and being questioned.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 1/11/2006 11:21:00 AM
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STATEMENT BY AGUDAS CHASIDEI CHABAD OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION ON THE
ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK IN MOSCOW
JANUARY 11, 2006—We are outraged by the vicious anti-Semitic attack against
Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the Former Soviet Union and those gathered in its
Moscow Headquarters and Synagogue. We join with people of conscience around
the world in condemning this hateful act, and send our prayers to those injured
during the assault.
Victims of the despicable attack include Rabbi Isaac Kogan, who testified in
April, 2005 before the U.S. Helsinki Commission about Chabad’s efforts to
retrieve the Schneerson Collection of sacred texts from Moscow. Rabbi Kogan is a
famous refusenik appointed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M.
Schneerson, to be part of Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the Former Soviet Union. The
other leaders of the organization are Rabbi Yosef Aronov, Rabbi Boruch S.
Cunin, and Rabbi Sholom Ber Levin, who are now en route to Moscow.
Among those seriously injured and hospitalized is Rabbi Kogan’s son- in-law,
Rabbi Michoel Mishulovin, who had emigrated with his family from Russia to
Los Angeles in the 1970s, but recently returned to Russia to assist the Jewish
community there. Rabbi Avraham Berkowitz of the Federation of Jewish
Communities of the Commonwealth of Independent States has been aiding efforts to
secure medical care for the wounded, with the assistance of Lev Leviev. Russia’s
Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar, has been in touch with police authorities to
ensure that justice is done.
Sadly, this assault is not the first instance of violence committed at the
Agudas Chasidei Chabad Headquarters and Synagogue, which is located just miles
from the Kremlin on Bolshaya Bronnaya street. In April of 1992, the Synagogue
was firebombed in middle of night while leaders of Agudas Chasidei Chabad
were staying there, and numerous anti-Semitic attacks have occurred since then.
Today’s hateful crime only strengthens our resolve to carry on the Rebbe’s
work in the former Soviet Union. We will redouble our efforts to win the
release of the Schneerson Collection of sacred texts, and will not stop until it
is returned to its rightful owners in the United States.
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