A multi-confessional state such as Russia must fight xenophobia and
acts such as the attack on a Moscow synagogue on Tuesday night,
Russian Chief Rabbi Adolf Shayevich told RIA Novosti.
Two unidentified assailants threw four bottles with petrol at the
Darkei Shalom Synagogue at Signalny Street.
Shayevich pointed out that there are a lot more religious people today
than there were in the USSR. Yet moral issues have become a major
problem. He believes that the government must make efforts to prevent
xenophobia.
The Federation of Russian Jewish Communities urged law-enforcers to
view the synagogue attack as an augmentation of interethnic tensions.
The police view it as hooliganism.
