Marianne Grin is interviewed by an Italian media outlet in St. Petersburg, Russia.
About a year ago Marianne Grin, a Jewish woman from Florence, Italy, fled to Russia with her three children to escape a ruling by an Italian court giving full custody of the children to her estranged non-Jewish husband. The husband had successfully portrayed her as ‘mentally unstable’ to the Italian judge, citing the fact that she enrolled her children in a Gan Israel summer camp run by Chabad – which he argued was a ‘radical religious cult.’