President Putin Meets Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted at the Kremlin, the country’s chief rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar Shlita, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. At the meeting, they discussed a variety of issues, including important humanitarian activities • Full Story, Photos
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted at the Kremlin, the country’s chief rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar Shlita, in honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, January 27, the day the Auschwitz was liberated. At the meeting, they discussed a variety of issues, including important humanitarian activities.
In the opening remarks in the presence of media, Putin said: “Of all the Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis, most of them were citizens of the Soviet Union, the pain is shared by us all. You know our position even today, that we are absolutely opposed to the denial of the Holocaust and that there is no statute of limitations for crimes committed against by the hands of the Nazis. We make and manage such a policy so that nothing like this happens again.”
Later in the meeting, in which the president of the Union of Jewish Communities in Russia, Rabbi Alexander Barda, joined, Putin continued and said: “The authorities of the Russian Federation and the prosecutor’s office are doing an intensive job to prevent all signs of anti-Semitism.”
At the end of the long meeting, Putin mentioned the large ceremony held at the Jewish Museum annually on the occasion of International Holocaust Day, which will be attended by ambassadors and various public figures.
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