Another Chabad Rabbi Kicked Out of Russia

from the JTA:

For the second time this year, Russian authorities have ordered out of the country a foreign-born Chabad rabbi who had lived there for years.

This week, a Moscow district court ordered Rabbi Yosef Khersonsky, an Israeli who heads one of the capital’s communities, to leave the Russian Federation in connection with his “setting up without permission a for-profit foreign entity,” the RIA Novosti news agency reported. The court did not specify the nature of the entity.

In a hearing, Khersonsky denied the allegation, arguing that he acted as a consultant on religious matters for existing Jewish institutions, the report said. He intends to appeal the ruling.

In March, a Russian appeals court affirmed an expulsion order issued against Rabbi Ari Edelkopf, an American rabbi working in Sochi, in what a local leader of the Chabad movement called a “dark day” for Jews.

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3 Comments

  • shlomo

    it’s always happened with israelis only, never with American. with apartheid state of israel build for russian Jewry, even good chabadnik still use relate to rusim in a certain way. the problem that in russia it not rusim it russskie((( Uparatzta do not work

    • Meir

      Liar:

      “In March, a Russian appeals court affirmed an expulsion order issued against Rabbi Ari Edelkopf, an American rabbi working in Sochi…”

      So take your “apartheid” fantasies and shove them.