Paul Goble: ‘After Putin, there will be another Putin’ – Jews again leaving Russia
Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar (R), lights candles as Russian President Vladimir Putin watches at the Jewish Museum in Moscow on Jan. 27, 2015.
For the first time since the 1990s, the number of jews emigrating from Russia to Israel has gone up dramatically, doubling between 2013 and 2014 to 4685. But this new wave is different from its predecessors in that its members are younger, better educated, and almost exclusively from Moscow.
