President Vladimir Putin named one of Russia’s two chief rabbis as one of his personal choices to sit on a new advisory body.
Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar of the Federation of Jewish Communities and main Chabad emissary in the region was one of several religious leaders appointed to the Public Chamber alongside clerics representing Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Pentecostalism.
Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar of the Federation of Jewish Communities and main Chabad emissary in the region was one of several religious leaders appointed to the Public Chamber alongside clerics representing Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Pentecostalism.
Russian rabbi named to top body
President Vladimir Putin named one of Russia’s two chief rabbis as one of his personal choices to sit on a new advisory body.
Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar of the Federation of Jewish Communities and main Chabad emissary in the region was one of several religious leaders appointed to the Public Chamber alongside clerics representing Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Pentecostalism.
The new body of 126 public figures is being touted by Putin as a tool to increase democracy in Russia. Human rights groups and critics of the Kremlin have decried the chamber as mere window-dressing to legitimize the government’s increasingly authoritarian policies.
