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Russian Jewish Students: Russia is Home
April 11, 2005Comments (0) | Add | E-mail this to a friendRecent anti-Semitic incidents here led several Israeli MKs born in the FSU to warn that Israel might face a second massive wave of Jews immigrating from Russia.
But a group of Russian Hillel students who sat down with The Jerusalem Post said that they have no burning desire to leave. Despite being troubled by anti-Semitism – which they had all personally experienced – they said the current climate in Russia isn't such a divergence from past years of hostility to Jews.
"It's not at the level that it will make people leave," said Mila Vigdorova, 28, program director for Hillel. She said that only if there were "state-level" anti-Semitism would it be enough to trigger such an exodus.
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