Recent major anti-Semitic incidents in Russia
Haaretz Service | 11.01.2006 22:09 | Anti-racism
January 2006 - Stabbing assault on 10 worshipers at synagogue
November 2005 - Television series with anti-Semitic features airs
November 2005 - Anti-Semitic graffiti at two Jewish Agency offices
October 2005 - Jewish cemetery desecrated in St. Petersburg. Hooligans rampage at Kosher restaurant
September 2005 - Jewish cemetery desecrated; synagogue stoned in Nizhny Novgorod
August 2005 - Jewish cemeteries desecrated in three incidents across the country
July 2005 - Petition to outlaw Judaism signed by 15,000
June 2005 - Neo-Nazis riot in Kosher grocery store
June 2005 - State prosecution rules the Kitzur Shulhan Aruch offensive to non-Jews. Synagogues vandalized in two separate incidents
May 2005 - Synagogue torched in Moscow. Jewish cemeteries desecrated in two incidents
March 2005 - Synagogue torched. Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans smeared on Jewish public buildings
January 2005 - Twenty lawmakers call on the attorney general to outlaw Judaism and Jewish organizations
January 2005 - Five assaults on pedestrians of Jewish appearance in downtown Moscow. Synagogue torched
November 2005 - Television series with anti-Semitic features airs
November 2005 - Anti-Semitic graffiti at two Jewish Agency offices
October 2005 - Jewish cemetery desecrated in St. Petersburg. Hooligans rampage at Kosher restaurant
September 2005 - Jewish cemetery desecrated; synagogue stoned in Nizhny Novgorod
August 2005 - Jewish cemeteries desecrated in three incidents across the country
July 2005 - Petition to outlaw Judaism signed by 15,000
June 2005 - Neo-Nazis riot in Kosher grocery store
June 2005 - State prosecution rules the Kitzur Shulhan Aruch offensive to non-Jews. Synagogues vandalized in two separate incidents
May 2005 - Synagogue torched in Moscow. Jewish cemeteries desecrated in two incidents
March 2005 - Synagogue torched. Swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans smeared on Jewish public buildings
January 2005 - Twenty lawmakers call on the attorney general to outlaw Judaism and Jewish organizations
January 2005 - Five assaults on pedestrians of Jewish appearance in downtown Moscow. Synagogue torched
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