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Exodus from Russia: Will Israel accept thousands of fleeing Jews?
2022-10-10
Yes. The law also includes those with at least one Jewish grandparent who haven’t practiced Judaism for two generations.
[Jpost] Tens of thousands of Russian Jews say they want to make aliyah, but is Israel ready to accept them?
Israel was literally born ready.
‘If anyone [any Jew] from our community asks me if they should make aliyah to Israel under the current circumstances, I tell the vast majority to leave,” Rabbi Boruch Gorin, head of the Public Relations Department of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday in a phone interview from Russia.

Gorin is a member of the Chabad movement and close to Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar. The fact that Gorin would say such a thing publicly explains that Russia is in a very different place since President Vladimir Putin decided to draft men over the age of 18.

Gorin said that during this past Yom Kippur in Moscow, he saw about 20% fewer congregants than usual.

“It’s not a rumor; people are leaving Russia,” he said. “Most of those who have left or who plan to leave are people that have boys around that age of the draft, or [where] the father of the family may be at that age. These families are scared and frightened that the borders will be closed [for men].”
Asked whether he is considering leaving the country, Gorin responded that he was sent back to Russia by the Lubavitcher Rebbe after he left in 1991.

AS REPORTED by the Post, Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata requested a budget of NIS 1 billion and received approval for only NIS 90 million in urgent funds for the new Russian olim. Expectations are of tens of thousands of Russian olim in the next few months.
Posted by:Skidmark

#2  Yes.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-10-10 21:04  

#1  The more gun-toting, non-humanist Jews in Israel the better.
Posted by: Dron66046   2022-10-10 09:44  

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