Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev is the first Russian head of state to visit Birobidjan, the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region.
Medvedev was accompanied by Russia’s Chief Rabbi and senior Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Berel Lazar, who led the President on a tour of the local Jewish community center.
The visit is part of a four day tour of the Russian Far East, where Medvedev will meet with members of the business community and attend a series of meetings at the city’s cultural center, synagogue and furniture factory.
Go Russia!!!!!!!!!
Wikipedia birobidjan, where Stalin planned to send all Jews (and nearly did too).
Rabbi Scheiner is the amazing shliach there, and he even has his own TV show, Yiddishkeit, which airs in the ‘Evreiski Avtonomos Oblast’.
Jewish Autonomous Region???
What is that??????