Berl Lazar biography. Who is Berl Lazar and what does Vladimir Putin have to do with it? Rabbi and big politics
Biography of Berl Lazar - young years.
Berl Lazar was born in Milan on May 19, 1964. His father was the rabbi of the Jewish community. About choosing your life path Lazar said that he always felt sympathy for the weak and a desire to help those in need, so the idea came to him to become a rabbi. The example of his father strongly influenced this decision - Lazar saw from childhood how much good he does for people and with what respect he is treated.
For some time, Lazar lived in the United States, where he was educated at a rabbinical college in New Jersey and studied at the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva in New York. A significant fact of the biography of Berl Lazar is receiving the title of dayan of a Jewish religious judge.
Lazar made his first visit to the USSR in 1987 as a tourist. According to Lazar himself, the purpose of his trip was to visit the Jewish community, which existed at that time as an illegal organization. This is what influenced Lazar's decision to move to Russia: according to him, he saw that the spiritual values of our country are manifested more than in other places, and appreciated the sincerity of Russian people.
In 1990, there was a turning point in Lazar's biography - he moved to Moscow and became the rabbi of the synagogue in Maryina Roshcha. Although the Lazar family initially faced the difficulties of living in Russia at that time, the country's chief rabbi recalls that he and his wife were pleased with the warmth emanating from other people, and they immediately noted how well the upbringing in Russia influenced their children. Recalling his first impressions, Lazar said that “…the community lives like one big family. In other countries, people visit the community twice a year.”
Since 1993, Lazar became the chairman of the association of rabbis of the CIS, and in 1999 he was appointed head of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. At the same time, his first official meeting with V.V. Putin took place.
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) was registered with the Ministry of Justice in November 1998. Adolf Shayevich, who in 1993 was elected Chief Rabbi of Russia at the congress of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia (KEROOR), believed that FEOR was created in opposition to KEROOR, although representatives of FEOR stated that there were no confrontations between them and KEROOR. Nevertheless, from the very foundation, FEOR was in very tense relations with KEROOR, which were especially acutely manifested publicly in 2005, when the details of the scandal between these two organizations over one of the synagogues of the Moscow Jewish community were published in the media.
On June 13, 2000, at a congress of representatives, Berl Lazar was elected Chief Rabbi of Russia.
March 20, 2001 Lazar becomes a member of the Council for Cooperation with Religious Organizations and Associations under the President of Russia.
In July 2002, at the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry, Berl Lazar was elected Chairman of the Board of Rabbis.
Berl Lazar has repeatedly acted as an ardent opponent of any manifestations of anti-Semitism, which has repeatedly been reflected in the facts of his biography. In August 1998, the Jewish cemetery in Malakhovka was destroyed, after which Lazar made an official announcement of a significant reward to those who find the culprits. In June 2002, Lazar helped Tatyana Sapunova, a Muscovite, who suffered because she wanted to remove an anti-Semitic sign on Kievskoye Highway. The girl, wounded by fragments of an explosive device, under the personal supervision of Lazar, was treated in one of the best Israeli plastic surgery clinics at the expense of the Federation of Jewish Communities.
On September 30, 2002, Lazar sent a petition to the president containing negative reviews of the National Power Party of Russia, in which he asked not to register the NDPR. In response, the co-chairman of the NDPR announced that a lawsuit had been filed against Lazar demanding compensation for moral damage in the amount of one million rubles.
Lazar repeatedly declared his political neutrality, but took part in the meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was the only rabbi.
Biography of Berl Lazar - mature years.
In October 2004, at a meeting between Lazar and Vladimir Putin, the president promised the chief rabbi of Russia the state's assistance in the further revival of Jewish communities. In January of the same year, 19 State Duma deputies filed an appeal with the Prosecutor General's Office accusing all Jewish organizations of extremist activity and proposing to bring those responsible for inciting ethnic hatred to criminal liability. The letter caused a surge of negativity in society, and after the authorities condemned anti-Semitism, one of its authors withdrew the appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office. But already in March, the Prosecutor General's Office received a new letter, signed by five thousand people, directed against Jewish religious and national associations.
In response, Berl Lazar sent a request to the Moscow prosecutor's office to initiate a criminal case on grounds of inciting religious hatred, but the case was refused.
On January 11, 2006, Muscovite Alexander Koptsev attacked the parishioners of one of the Moscow synagogues. Lazar sent a request to the Moscow prosecutor to open a criminal case for the attack, especially noting ethnic hatred as the motive for the attack. By the decision of the Moscow City Court, Koptsev was found guilty and sentenced to 13 years in prison in a strict regime colony and compulsory treatment. Lazar was not satisfied with the verdict, as the court found Koptsev not guilty of inciting hatred on the grounds of nationality.
In September 2009, there was a scandal over anti-Semitic statements by the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod, Sergei Ratushnyak, in which Berl Lazar became a participant. The Jewish community of Russia and the Chief Rabbi of the country were deeply shocked by such statements by the mayor. Lazar visited Uzhhorod on the day of the opening of the first memorial to the victims of the Holocaust as a sign of solidarity with the local Jewish community and protest against the anti-Semitic statements of the mayor of the city.
Berl Lazar's family is wife Hannah Deren, a US citizen, five sons and eight daughters. Lazar, in addition to Russian, speaks six languages - Yiddish, Hebrew, English, French, and Italian, he made Russian the first language for his children.
Burl Lazar (full name Shlomo Dov-Ber Pinhos Lazar; May 19, 1964, Milan, Italy) - Chief Rabbi Russian Federation.
Burl Lazar,
Shlomo Dov-Ber Pinhos Lazar
Hebrew שלמה דובער פנחס לאזאר
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Vladimir Putin and Berl Lazar
Chief Rabbi of the Russian Federation
since 1999
Elected: November 15, 1999
Community: Judaism
Member of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation
2005 - 2010
Birth: 19 May 1964 (8 Sivan 5724)
Milan, Italy
Spouse: Hannah Deren
Children: 5 sons, 8 daughters
Taking holy orders: Chief Rabbi of the Russian Federation
Burl Lazar Born May 19, 1964 in Italy in the family of the rabbi of the Jewish community of Milan. In 1978, after graduating from a comprehensive Jewish school, he entered the Rabbinical College of New Jersey (USA). Then, in 1982, he continued his studies at the Yeshiva "Tomchei Tmimim" in New York and graduated in 1988 with a diploma of a rabbi with the rank of dayan.
Development of the Jewish community in Moscow. Active participation in the work of Jewish organizations in the Russian Federation
In 1991 Burl Lazar becomes the rabbi of the Moscow synagogue in Maryina Roshcha. In the early 1990s, he participated in the activities of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia (KEROOR); was one of the active participants in the founding congress of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) in 1996 and even entered the presidium of the RJC. Since 1995, he has also held the post of Chairman of the Association of Rabbis of the CIS.
At the first FEOR congress, which opened on November 15, 1999, Burl Lazar was elected chief rabbi of Russia. June 13, 2000 on the so-called. "Pan-Jewish Congress" of representatives of 87 communities, of which 70 represented the FEOR, 4 represented the KEROOR, the rest were members of the "VAAD of Russia" and at the same time collaborated with the FEOR, 25 of the 26 rabbis present elected Berl Lazar as Chief Rabbi of Russia.
Rabbi A. Shaevich, who of his own free will was one of the candidates among dozens of other rabbis in this election, unsuccessfully tried to protest the appearance of a new chief rabbi as illegal. After the election, he decided, with the support of KEROOR and RJC, to continue to call himself the acting Chief Rabbi of Russia.
May 29, 2000 Rabbi Berl Lazar received Russian citizenship while retaining US citizenship. According to the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in 2001 Rabbi Berl Lazar joined the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation.
On July 2, 2002, at the founding congress of the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jewry in Moscow, Rabbi Burl Lazar was elected chairman of the Rabbinical Council of this international organization. One of his duties in this position is to regularly and objectively inform the international community about the situation of the Jewish community in our country and the opposition of the authorities state power manifestations of antisemitism.
In September 2005, by Decree of President V.V. Putin Burl Lazar was appointed a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Currently under the spiritual care of a rabbi Berla Lazar Jewish communities have been revived in more than 350 cities of the CIS, national schools and kindergartens are operating, rabbis are working in dozens of cities, synagogues and charitable organizations are functioning.
Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of March 30, 2004 (Nisan 8, 5764) "for merits in the development of spiritual culture and the strengthening of friendship between peoples" Rabbi Berel Lazar was awarded the Order of Friendship. 3 months later, on June 25 (6 Tamuz), in the Kremlin, the head of state V.V. Putin personally presented him with the order.
Burl Lazar family
Berl Lazar is married and father of 13 children.
Wife - Hannah Deren, daughter of Rabbi Ezekiel Deren, who was a rabbi in the city of Pittsburgh.
Has 13 children (5 sons and 8 daughters):
Daughter - Bluma (since June 16, 2011, married to Isaac Rosenfeld, son of the envoy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Colombia, Rabbi Yehoshua Rosenfeld).
Son - Ehezkel,
Son - Menachem Mendel,
Son - Sholom,
Daughter - Fradl,
Son - Yisroel-Arye-Leib,
Son - Levi Yitzhak,
Daughter - Dvora-Leya,
Daughter - Stern-Sara,
Daughter - Broha,
Daughter - Rivka,
Daughter - Miriam Bala
Daughter - Sheina
Awards Burl Lazar
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" IV degree (April 30, 2014) - for labor achievements, significant contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, merits in the humanitarian sphere, strengthening law and order, many years of conscientious work, active lawmaking and social activities
Order of Friendship (March 30, 2004) - for merits in the development of spiritual culture and the strengthening of friendship between peoples
On December 1, 2004 he was awarded the public order of Minin and Pozharsky
On September 5, 2005 he was awarded the Order of Peter the Great, I degree
Golden Badge of Honor "Public Recognition" (2006)
On May 31, 2005 in Moscow, at the 19th meeting of the Russian Organizing Committee "Victory", the Chief Rabbi of Russia was awarded a commemorative medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". The letter attached to the medal and signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin says that "the medal was awarded for active participation in the patriotic education of citizens and a great contribution to the preparation of the anniversary of the Victory."
Medal "Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. 200 years." (2002)
Who is Dmitry Medvedev and who are the Hasidim? (Start)
Living and already inanimate state elite
... I, as the head of the organization, am his and President Putin's personal rabbi. He gives us the impression of a person who is very similar to us in understanding the role of religion in society. D. Medvedev is a person who is ready for almost any job...because he is a man of our Judaic worldview and vast experience... Where did berl lazar come from? It was precisely such personnel that were needed for the started fight with the snickering nomenclature of the CPSU. On the one hand, they had nothing to lose, and on the other hand, they were on a short leash of the KGB, and the officer of our "Gestapo", a Jew by nationality, Volodya Putin, was with him from the very beginning. This explains his rapid career growth. This is where the fight began in the Russian Jewish kitchen with the use of lured shabesgoys, with the involvement of half-breeds, with a fiddle in the pocket in the form of the Hasidic gang of Berl Lazar. Someday a list of eaten and trampled pops up. In the meantime, hints of details can be gleaned, let's say, in an article by a Hasidic activist, journalist L. Radzikhovsky "Jewish Happiness" and "Jewish Revolution" ("Jewish Word", 2002 No. 34). It is foolish to underestimate the consequences of the processes taking place in the Jewish environment for a country where power has been exclusively in Jewish hands for 90 years. If the goyim-animals knew more about the fight in which, by the year 41, the Western Ashkenazis met with their puppet, Hitler, and the Eastern Sephardim, who created their own kahal of the CPSU (VKPb), it might not have happened on June 22. Yes, and the year 37, when some Jews killed others - their rivals, is seen from a different angle. Where is the best place to hide a couple of "your" "necessary" corpses? Correctly! In the mountains of other people's corpses, outsiders, and even declare themselves the injured party. You can ask an orthodox Jew, who are the Hasidim? Before answering, he will spit and swear for a long time, and the answer will sound like this - the Hasidim have nothing to do with Judaism. The Hasidim operate under the roof of Judaism in the same way that the Wahhabis operate under the roof of Islam. The first enemy of a Hasid is the faithful Jew in the synagogue, and only then everyone else. And the traditional synagogue is much more hateful for them than a mosque or a Christian temple, passing by which it is necessary to spit and wish for destruction. The fight between Jews and Hasidim is now going on all over the world, including in Israel. It's just that in Russia it is entering its climactic phase. In any synagogue in Israel, they will tell you that an orthodox Jew should not let a Hasid into the house, should not shake hands with him, and, having met him on the street, go to the other side. Places of Hasidic gatherings are equated with brothels, and a Jew who visits them is considered defiled. You can drive a real Jew into a Hasidic synagogue only at the point of a Schmeiser. Now it is clear why most of the Hasidic buildings in Russia are empty, like coffins that have not been sold ... For a Hasidic Jew, it is a hundred times worse than an "animal" - a goy. And Berl Lazar and his gang will be even worse than the Hasidim - they are also Chabad, and in Judaism they are complete scumbags. And in Israel and in other countries of the world, Jews call the Hasidim fascists, fanatical terrorists ... And now in Russia this gang has not just come to power, it itself is becoming a power with all the ensuing consequences for the population ... Let the voters of United Russia, the ordinary United Russia themselves, and all the other inhabitants of the country, know how Chabad Hasidim differ from other Jews. If we discard all religious differences that are of no importance to the goyim (i.e., all non-Jews), then the following will remain the main thing: - The Jewish (Hasid-Chabad) kingdom, headed by the king - the messiah, will come when the Jews completely exterminate on earth, all existing peoples, and every Jew should strive for this all his life and in all ways. Including with the help of bloody sacrifices that are pleasing to "God". Everyone must be destroyed to the last person, including Jews - half-breeds and incorrectly believing Jews (according to the Hasidim), i.e. the vast majority of Jews who do not accept Chabad. The rest of the Jews, unlike the Hasidim, believe that some part of the goyim should be left alive as slaves, for menial work and entertainment. Activists of United Russia, through outright servility, are working out their right to be among these slaves. But here they made a big mistake, because the Hasidim consider them only as their kosher herd, and it is nonsense for them to negotiate with animals (gentiles). Therefore, let United Russia, and everyone else, get used to the fact that it is impossible to take any significant place in politics, business in other areas without being a Jew, and if things go like this with demography, then there will be no one ... Berl Lazar's ascent to the top began with the advent of V. Putin to the Kremlin. To begin with, he granted Lazar Russian citizenship, in addition to American, Italian, Israeli. Two weeks later he was made chief rabbi. Since 1992 Chief Rabbi Russia was Adolf Sh Aevich, who led the Congress of Jewish religious communities and |
organizations of Russia (KEROOR) and supported by money vladimir g Usinsky. Within this framework Boris b Yerezovskiy was perceived as not quite a full-blooded Jew. In retaliation, Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich initiated the creation of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) in November 1999, headed by a US citizen berl l azar. In June 2000, a "pan-Jewish congress" of Russia was organized, at which the composition of the participants was organized in favor of the FEOR, and berl l Azar was declared the chief rabbi of Russia. At the same time in. G Usinsky was arrested.
In September 2000, with the participation in. Putin b. l Azar opens the Moscow Jewish Community Center (MEOC) in Maryina Roshcha, where V. Putin, Y. Luzhkov and other leaders of Russia have regularly visited since then. Shayevich eventually faded into the shadows and is half-forgotten today.
But let's give the floor to Adolf Shayevich, whom no one seems to have removed from the post of chief rabbi. "They (FEOR) had a conference, there were no elections on the agenda. Someone came from the Kremlin, called Lazar and after 10 minutes announced that they would now elect the chief rabbi of Russia. And here are two dozen rabbis of which 18 foreigners chose him ... They are, roughly speaking, a sect" ("Newspaper" 2002 July 23).
M facial expressions and gestures are significant!
Dates of Putin's meetings with rabbis from 2000 to 2005
07.12.2004 Alabino. Celebrations dedicated to the 63rd anniversary of the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow. V. Putin congratulated the rabbi B. Lazar and all the Jews of Russia with the holiday of Hanukkah.
25.10.2004 V. Putin met with B. Lazar and promised federal assistance to Jewish communities in the regions of the country. B. Lazar: "In Russia, the Jewish community is developing faster than in any other country in the world," he thanked the President of the Russian Federation for his assistance.
15.09.2004 Moscow. V. Putin congratulated Russian Jews Happy Rosh Hashanah.
25.06.2004 Moscow. Kremlin. V. Putin handed over B. Lazaru Order of Friendship of Peoples.
19.05.2004 V. Putin congratulated B. Lazar and on your 40th birthday: “As an authoritative spiritual leader and public figure, you are making a significant contribution to the development of the religious and cultural life of the Jewish community in Russia, the implementation of educational and educational programs. It is important that your activities serve to strengthen interfaith dialogue, civil peace and harmony in the country.”
01.04.2004 V. Putin awarded (signed a decree) B. Lazar Order of Friendship for merits in the development of culture and the strengthening of friendship between peoples. B. Lazar: "I want to thank him ( V. Putin- ed.) for everything he did for the revival and development of Jewish community life in Russia.
30.12.2003 Moscow. Kremlin. B. Lazar invited to a reception given V. Putin.
21.12.2003 Moscow, office of the President of the Russian Federation. V. Putin had a meeting with B. Lazar. V. Putin: "Judaism is one of the four main faiths in Russia." Putin declared that he was interested in building synagogues and Jewish schools.
19.03.2002 V. Putin met with the leaders of the Jewish communities of Russia, including B. Lazar: “In my speeches, I repeatedly emphasized that Russia is a place where Christianity, Judaism, and Muslim culture have been located for centuries [Christianity and Islam are two sects of Judaism - A.]. In this regard, I want to note the contribution that the Jewish people made to the development of our state. I would especially like to note recent events, namely, the initiatives of the Jewish community in our very sensitive foreign policy activities and plans. And as a continuation of this conversation, we record the policies of some public Jewish organizations in the United States. In particular, we drew attention to a letter from one of these organizations, I think it is the Jewish American Congress, to the administration of the United States about redirecting part of its economic oil interests from some countries that traditionally supplied energy raw materials to the United States, to Russia."
07.02.2002 Moscow. Kremlin. V. Putin met with B. Lazar.
13.11.2001 USA. V. Putin met with B. Lazar.
20.03.2001 Moscow. B. Lazar included in the Council V. Putin on interaction with religious organizations and associations.
23.01.2001 Moscow. Kremlin. B. Lazar participated in an official meeting with the President of Israel Moshe Katsav.
21.12.2000 Moscow, Moscow Jewish Community Center in Maryina Roshcha. V. Putin lights Hanukkah candles with B. Lazar.
18.09.2000 Moscow. V. Putin(together with Roman Abramovich) solemnly opens the Moscow Jewish Community Center in Maryina Roshcha together with B. Lazar.
13.07.2000 Moscow. V. Putin had a secret meeting with B. Lazar.
07.05.2000 Moscow. At the inauguration V. Putin rabbi was present Adolf Shaevich.
Growing horns of GDP with age
This scrupulousness is not at all excessive, but necessary vigilance. If it had been manifested in due time by the Russians in relation to, say, Trotsky, we would not be "white negroes" now.
And here is what the leaders, "Congresses of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia" (KEROOR, includes more than 95% of Jews), Rabbis Kogan, Shaevich and dozens of others, said: "This is a sect that copies the actions of criminal structures."
Not meeting with widespread support among Russian Jews, Lazar turned to Putin for permission to bring 50,000 Hasidic fighters into the country. Such permission has been obtained. They were recruited all over the world, but mostly in New York, promising places in power, in business and complete impunity. Now this private army of religious scumbags is just waiting for the command "Face!". On the expanses of one-eighth of the land, a bloody fight for extermination flares up. Increasingly broad sections of the population are drawn into it. It is clear that nothing good can come of this. Those who advocate Putin's plan should remember that for the period from 1917-2000. According to estimates by Duma demographic experts, Russia has suffered a demographic loss of at least 100 million people. And during Putin's rule, the population of the country decreased by 47 million in less than 8 years, and 12.5 million died of starvation and poverty (the Moment of Truth program).
O Jewish roots President Putin was told in an interview by an Israeli businessman and an emigrant from Leningrad I. Radoshkovich back in 1997, something like the following: "his second cousin Vladimir Putin has great prospects for advancement ... in Russian politics." And Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, according to the newspaper "Komersant" dated 07/15/2005, said: "Putin can receive Israeli citizenship, as an ethnic Jew by his mother. This played a significant role in his ascent to power. All this, however, never prevented anyone from being publicly baptized in Orthodox churches, nor create for themselves a small pocket Hasidic Khaganate. And now to completely put on the power of the buffoon bearish mask of "United Russia" and received as a bonus a crumb of tsahis as a contender.
However, Putin is not alone. This is what many prominent United Russia members do, for example, the main “chabadnik” of Moscow, Luzhkov-Katz, who also crosses himself with one hand, and with the other publicly lights up the manuka on Manezhnaya Square together with Lazar (where without him?). As Moscow Jews who know too much whisper, Chabadnik Luzhkov-Katz does not mind when lackeys call him the Mashiach (King-Messiah) in a cap for the time being only of Moscow ...
On February 27, 2008, the Chief Rabbi of Russia and the founder of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS gave a lecture on the Jews of Russia and their future in Oxford in the Shabad society. The lecture was in English, which berl l Azar is fluent.
Here are some excerpts from Lazar's lecture, translated by Alexei Nikitin.
In Leningrad, a little over 50 years ago, a boy was born, whose neighbors turned out to be a Jewish family. The neighbor boy was warmly welcomed into Jewish family and from a young age imbibed respect for the Jewish world. There he was fed with Jewish food, there he saw how the head of the family reads Jewish books, there he appreciated the respectful attitude of the members of the Jewish family towards each other.
After some time, this boy grew up and became the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg. And one day he learned that another deputy mayor did not want to allow the creation of a Jewish school in St. Petersburg. Then he took all the documents on the organization of the Jewish school and went to the deputy mayor who was in charge of this, asking why and why the ban. Life's answer is: "I myself am a Jew and do not want to be accused of promoting a Jewish school, so my permission will not be." Hearing this, the boy who grew up to the deputy mayor himself signed all the papers and a Jewish school appeared in St. Petersburg.
This boy's name was Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
(Jews (Jews) will never accept in their house, according to all Jewish rules, a non-Jew (goy), whom V. Putin allegedly was at that time and is now (if we discard the fact of his physical Jewish origin). Moreover, V. Putin at that time was not a statesman, but was a boy who was just going to school. - Approx. transl.)
Never and no leader of Russia or the USSR did so much for the Jews as Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. In every way. Unprecedented.
Now in Russia, many mayors of cities, heads of regions and government ministers are Jews. It has become the norm.
After several meetings with V. Putin, Ariel Sharon, in confidential conversations with me, repeatedly emphasized that “we have Jews and Israel has the greatest friend in the Kremlin”
There is a lot of talk in Russia about Dmitry Medvedev's Jewishness. They talk about his mother, who is allegedly Jewish. I don't know how to comment on this. We do not recognize him as a Jew. However, I will tell you the following. Three days before the announcement of President V. Putin as his successor, D. Medvedev came to our Center, where he promised that everything would be in the best possible way for us. We will get more than we can even wish for. Let me remind you that this was three days before the announcement of his heir.
Today, the highest leaders of Russia come to visit our Center. B. Gyzlov, Yu. Luzhkov, S. Mironov and many others. It has become routine when we are often visited by the leaders of Russia.
To the question after the lecture from the audience “why did V. Putin put M. Khodorkovsky in prison” the answer was as follows:
“I am well acquainted with Khodorkovsky, we have good relations with him. Khodorkovsky turned to us for help too late, 2 days before his arrest. We just didn't have time to help him. Jews should not seek righteousness in life, but be quick-witted. Khodorkovsky was ruined by his arrogance in permissiveness. He began to finance the opposition to V. Putin and paid the price for it.”
Accompanying B. Lazar on this visit to the Shabad Center was 29-year-old Baron David Rothschild, scion of the famous Rothschild Jewish banking family.
Before the start of B. Lazar's lecture, a short introductory speech, embarrassed, said the young baron:
“I began to travel regularly to Russia after 2000. I first met Rabbi Berl Lazar in Davos, Switzerland, and when I arrived in Russia, one of my first actions was to get to know him better. This acquaintance grew into a close and trusting friendship. Together we started many charitable initiatives. I really hope that our trusting friendship will continue in the future.”
During B. Lazar's lecture, it became known that the MEOC is equipped with a magnificent library, a swimming pool, a huge dining room, feeding for free, etc. The magnificent dining room was financed by the Rothschilds. But the young baron has never visited the dining room itself. It was curious that there was no interest in seeing the fruits of one's own charity with one's own eyes.
However, neither the young baron nor B. Lazar even said a word about the affairs of the Rothschild family property in Russia - British Petroleum, the largest company in Great Britain and the giant of the oil business on Earth. In August 2003, British Petroleum acquired a 50% stake in the Tyumen Oil Company, previously owned by Mikhail Fridman's financial group.
Mikhail Fridman converted 50% of the TNK privatized under Yeltsin into more than 4 billion hard currency. Moreover, everyone decided that Mikhail Fridman had secured ahead of time against the “fate of Khodorkovsky” with arrests, hiding behind the now “joint business” with an international giant. Try to take it back by nationalization.
Through Berl Lazar's lobbying, British Petroleum not only soared to a height unattainable by other foreign competitors. During the total conflict with Britain that erupted after Britain's demand to extradite Andrey Lugovoi to British justice in the case of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, all the offices of the British Council in Russia were closed (!!), and British Petroleum to this day as a Kremlin shrine.
(I have always been interested in the question of how representatives of a truly small Jewish community became so powerful in appropriating the wealth of Russia. B. Lazar's lecture at Oxford and accompanied by the young Rothschild brought him closer to understanding the inner springs of this phenomenon. In light of this, the fight against corruption. - approx. transl.)
However, Russian patriots are now more interested in the essence Dmitry Medvedev.
So, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev. What lurks behind the portrait, sparingly painted for us by the official media? First of all, we are surprised to see that he is no Medvedev and no Dmitry. All this is nothing more than a cover, a kind of party pseudonym, the same as, for example, Lenin, Trotsky, etc.
In the system of documentation of Jewish communities (Ktuba - a marriage contract, fixation of circumcision, adulthood), in the databases of rabbinical courts, this person is listed as Menachem Aaronovich Mendel (for some reason, Russian in his passport). Father - Aaron Abramovich Mendel, according to the passport Anatoly Afanasevich, as you might guess, is also recorded as Russian. Mother - Tsilya Veniaminovna, Jewish.
Wife - Svetlana Moiseevna Linnik.
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(8 Sivan 5724)
Milan, Italy
Rabbi Burl Lazar(full name Shlomo Dov-Ber Pinhos; May 19, 1964, Milan, Italy) - rabbi and public figure, chairman of the Rabbinical Council of the religious organization Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) and Chief Rabbi of Russia from FEOR. In September 2005, by Decree of President VV Putin, he was appointed a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.
Biography
In 1978, after graduating early from a Jewish high school, he entered the Rabbinical College in New Jersey (USA). In 1982-1988 he studied at the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva in New York. Received the title of a Jewish judge - dayana.
In 1988 he visited Russia for the first time. Having received the blessing of MM Schneerson, Lazar decided to devote himself to the restoration of Jewish religious life in the Soviet Union.
Since September 1990 - the rabbi of the synagogue in Maryina Roshcha.
In 1993, he was elected chairman of the association of rabbis of the CIS, played a big role in the creation of Jewish communities in various regions.
In the early 1990s, he participated in the activities of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Communities of Russia (KEROOR); was one of the active participants in the founding congress of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) in 1996 and even entered the presidium of the RJC.
January 23, 2001 took part in an official meeting with Israeli President Moshe Katsav in the Kremlin.
On March 20, 2001, by order of President V.V. Putin, he was included in the Council under the President of Russia for interaction with religious organizations and associations.
A family
Wife - Hannah Deren, daughter of an American rabbi, US citizen. In 2010, by a special Decree of the President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev, she received Russian citizenship in the regime “For special services to the Fatherland” (providing the opportunity not to renounce the citizenship of other countries).
Has 13 children: 5 sons (Ehezkel, Menachem-Mendl, Sholom, Yisroel-Arie-Leib, Levi-Yitzhak) and 8 daughters (Bluma, Fradl, Dvoira-Leya, Stern-Sara, Brokha, Rivka, Miriam and Sheina).
Relations with KEROOR
From the very foundation of FEOR, relations with KEROOR were very tense.
The peak of public confrontation took place in February 2005, when a dispute over the ownership of the synagogue of the Moscow community Darkkey Shalom in Otradnoye scandal spilled out in the media
The eternally persecuted Jewish people has its own special history in our country. There were tragic incidents and terrible misunderstandings. In the twentieth century, more than a hundred thousand Jews emigrated from Russia, the revolution, war and persecution by the Soviet government forced people to leave with their families.
The situation changed after the collapse of the USSR, when several Jewish public organizations were created, charity events were held, congresses of those who are not indifferent, at one of which in 2000 the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, was elected for the first time.
This man has been representing the interests of the Jewish people in our state and in some other CIS countries for 16 years now. His story is not as simple as a spiritual leader, he is constantly forced to face the problems of morality, politics, he is used to being accused of any sins, but they do not stop listening and quoting.
Biography
Lazar Berl Pinchos was born in 1964 to a Hasidic Jewish family. His father was a rabbi in Milan, which at that time had the largest Jewish community in Italy. The boy attended a Jewish school and grew up respecting the traditions of his people. After graduation, Lazar wanted to continue to comprehend the foundations of the Jewish religion, but there were no such educational institutions in Milan. And the young man goes to the USA, where at one time his father also received the title of rabbi.
For a long ten years, Lazar Berl studied in America. He successfully graduated first from a college in New Jersey, and then from the oldest Jewish university - a yeshiva in New York. After which he receives the title of rabbi, and also becomes a religious judge.
A family
While living in America, Lazar not only studies, but also makes many friends, like-minded people, here he finds a wife for himself, who became the daughter of one of the American rabbis, Hannah Deren. Unlike her husband, she never changed citizenship. According to Berl Lazar himself, despite the fact that his children were born in Russia, they are still subjects of America, although the head of the family hopes that his heirs will also fall in love with Russia.
Both in words and in deeds, the future leader of Russian Jews always follows God's precepts. Berl Lazar, whose family embodies the ideal embodiment of the traditions of Jewish society, consists of 13 children - eight daughters and five sons.
First visit to Russia
In the West, our country was considered the worst for a comfortable living for Jews. Moreover, many have become Russified for a long time, did not observe the religious customs of their people, forgot who they were and where they came from. Therefore, some immigrants from America, Israel, Europe came with a specific mission: to revive the lost faith in their compatriots.
Berl Lazar, whose biography is filled with bright events, considered his first visit to Russia one of the decisive ones in his future destiny. He was still a student when he arrived in Moscow in 1988 on a tourist visa, but by no means for entertainment purposes. According to some reports, Lazar Berl already on this first visit tried to meet with the leaders of the Jewish community in Russia, lectured on Judaism. Of course, this took place in deep secrecy, the rabbi even had to memorize all the addresses and telephone numbers, so that in the event of detention by the NKVD there would be no evidence. Thus, meetings with like-minded people were more like sorties of scouts.
During this first visit, the future Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berl Lazar, realized that his heart belongs to this country, even despite the far from democratic attitude towards the representatives of his people.
In the United States, he received the title of rabbi, got married and, having secured the blessing of the leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, returned to Moscow in order to revive the Jewish religion in our country.
Social work
In 1990, Lazar Berl became a rabbi at the synagogue in Maryina Roshcha. He liked this place even on his first visit; relative freedom of communication reigned here compared to the capital itself. He begins to conduct propaganda among his parishioners, agitating them to stay in Russia, and not leave for other countries.
As an intelligent person, Lazar understood that it was impossible to revive the Jewish religion again without the support of the authorities. His meeting in 1991 with the country's president, Boris Yeltsin, yielded certain results, because the newly elected ruler promised to adopt appropriate laws to make life easier for Jews.
In subsequent years, Lazar continued to make influential friends, his name is often associated with Boris Berezovsky and Arkady Abramovich. Although he himself notes that he was only superficially familiar with businessmen.
active religious and social activity distinguishes Berl Lazar from the rest, so in 1993 he was elected representative of the Union of Rabbis of the CIS countries. The activities of the organization were not limited to solving religious issues, together with their leader, they founded the Or-Avner Chabad-Lubavitch charitable foundation.
A special feature of the Jewish people is the help of all compatriots, whether it is a plight in the family or the desire to realize the idea of their own business. The charitable foundation founded by Lazar Berl brought this tradition to Russia too.
In the late 90s, the Congress of the Jewish Religious Organization was held annually, in which Lazar initially participated, but later refused to attend these events due to disagreement with the participation of the reformists in the congress. Berl Lazar himself continued to be a Hasid, wrote books on this topic, and lectured.
First steps towards the unification of Russian Jews
In 1998, there was a need for official registration of religious communities at the legislative level. Almost all Jewish families from different cities of the country united in FEOR (Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia). According to observers, Berezovsky and Abramovich stood behind this organization, who saw in such an association not so much a settlement of a religious issue, but a way to invest their finances well.
Despite some, sometimes even scandalous disagreements with some heads of the Jewish communities, it is FEOR that becomes the central organization. According to some reports, her connections with the most influential businessmen of the country and well-known politicians helped her to become one. At the very first congress, a leader is unanimously elected - Berl Lazar became him.
However, not everyone immediately recognized Lazar's leading position. In parallel with FEOR, other similar organizations existed in Russia. They criticized the activities of the new leader, for example, categorically disagreed with his ideology of inheriting a national female line when a person could be considered a Jew only by his mother. To which Berl Lazar replied with quotations from the Torah, which confirmed this law, which has existed for several thousand years. But there is a reason for such misunderstanding of the foundations of Judaism in our country. During the decades of isolation of Russian Jews from Israel, some of the foundations of religion have been lost and forgotten. As BerlLazar points out, children born to non-Jewish mothers could not be considered Jews.
In general, this person always remained firm in matters of rules, which is probably why he was so successful in fulfilling the duties of a religious judge simultaneously with the role of leader. Lazar called this his duty - to solve a variety of problems of ordinary people - not the easiest task, but he also noted that married couples who come to him who want to get a divorce change their mind after talking with him in almost eighty percent of cases.
Chief Rabbi of Russia
Until 2000, there was no official representative of the Jewish confession in our country. The need for this was felt more and more. Having become the chairman of the FEOR, Berl Lazar already understood and saw his next role and the ways to achieve it. He was able to enlist the support of the majority of the voices of the Jewish communities, met with the future president of the Russian Federation, with whom he discussed a further plan for the development of the religion of Judaism in the country.
For his part, he tried to become as close as possible to the Russians, mastering the language perfectly and, in the end, becoming a citizen of the Russian Federation, although he retained his US passport.
All this work led to the fact that in June 2000 the Chief Rabbi of the Russian Federation was elected at the Congress of Communities in Moscow. They became Berl Lazar, and the decision was taken by all delegates unanimously.
Immediately after the announcement of the results, dissenters appeared. In particular, Adolf Shaevich, who still considers himself a true leader of the Jewish communities, spoke out categorically against Lazar, explaining this by the fact that more than half of the voters did not have Russian citizenship at all.
The chief rabbi did not respond to all these attacks, but immediately set to work directly.
Activity as a spiritual leader
A month after the election, Berl Lazar makes a number of trips around Russia. So, having visited Nizhny Novgorod, he agrees with the governor on the construction of a community center, a whole complex that includes sports sections, including a swimming pool, as well as all kinds of entertainment areas.
The scale of the new leader's ideas became apparent already in September, when the Moscow Community Center was opened in Maryina Roshcha. The celebration was attended by the first persons of the state, and especially the guest of honor - Vladimir Putin. Many immediately saw this as official approval by the authorities of the election of the chief rabbi.
Between 2000 and 2001 Ben Lazar managed to visit dozens of regions of the country. He met with the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, the governor of Vladivostok, Saratov, Krasnoyarsk, established contact with the leadership and promoted ideas for the development of Jewish communities throughout the country.
Rabbi and big politics
It seemed strange to many that the future chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, was not present at the inauguration of President Vladimir Putin. Citizenship, and therefore the opportunity to participate in such an event, he received only a few weeks later, which is the main reason.
The chief rabbi will meet with the President of the country more than once both in an official setting and for a personal conversation. And in 2001, Lazar joined the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with Religious Organizations of the Country. In general, Berl Lazar and Putin could always find a common language, Vladimir Vladimirovich did not want to lose touch with the representative of the group of the most influential businessmen of the country and the world.
The results of the ruling party's benevolence towards the activities of Hasidic Jews in Russia are the awards of the chief rabbi, which were presented to him by the president himself. In 2014, Berl Lazar received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree. This high award was preceded by other recognitions - the Order of Friendship, the Minin and Pozharsky Prize, the Peter the Great Prize, Lazar's struggle for the patriotic education of young people in Russia was repeatedly noted.
He never stopped making suggestions to make life easier for the Jews. So, he achieved the abolition of exams in schools and other educational institutions on Saturdays for children from Jewish families. Even louder was his call to the US government, which he asked to review and cancel the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which restricts entry into the United States of America for some citizens of the USSR, and later Russia.
Berl Lazar is still an active participant in all kinds of political events, for example, at the EU summit, he called on the head of the European Commission to join forces in the fight against nationalist ideas in the world.
Performance evaluation
The chief rabbi of the country is used to giving interviews, responding to comments, and during his travels in Russia he always draws a crowd. Do not do without scandals. During speeches at the congresses of rabbis from different countries, he repeatedly argued that the Jewish community in Russia is flourishing, people of the Jewish faith are no longer fleeing the country, the Jews are no longer in danger. What caused surprise and dissatisfaction among journalists, what is Berl Lazar playing at? His quotes about the absence of anti-Semitism seem, at least, unreliable, especially after the 2002 explosion on the Kiev highway, the looting of a Jewish cemetery, or the beating of Rabbi David Yushevaev.
Ordinary observers began to notice that such excessive patriotism, admiration for the government, as well as the ongoing policy of improving life only for the elite, that is, Jews, worsen relations between our two nations, provoke the emergence of even more anti-Semitic organizations.
But still, he tries to include the main thoughts, plans for the future and possible advice in his lectures. Lazar always spoke rather harshly against representatives of sexual minorities, did not recognize their desire to stand out and declare themselves and their inclinations to the whole world, and was glad that in Russia both the government and the people are also unambiguously against this phenomenon in society.
Sometimes the chief rabbi of Russia behaves like a true politician, telling people what they want to hear. Perhaps only in literary work did he express himself with a greater degree of sincerity. In 2013, a limited edition book was published in Israel, not for everyone, written by Berl Lazar. "Jewish Russia", as this essay is called, is still the subject of controversy and sharp criticism. What thoughts in it really belong to Lazar, and what is definitely fiction is not so easy to determine.
The book also contains the rabbi's memories of his first steps in Russia, the secrets of his success, and his acquaintances with the country's most influential people. Usually a literary work is aimed at the largest possible number of readers. But the author Berl Lazar is not like that. Books fell into the hands of only a select few and were never sold, but still some translations penetrated the society and shook it greatly.
Chief Rabbi of Russia
The name of this man has been heard in Russia for more than 15 years. Berl Lazar, whose biography, his merits are the result of perseverance in defending his views, really deserves respect. The mere fact that in the 1990s he came to Russia, although he could have chosen any economically developed country, speaks of his courage, as well as his foresight.
Whatever attitude the Russians have towards the representatives of the chosen people, this nation has qualities that help them achieve success. They are always close-knit, sincerely believe in themselves, which is why there are so many businessmen, politicians and intellectuals in general among the Jews.
So Berl Lazar stayed in Russia to revive the religious feelings of his compatriots. And he succeeded in this.
To date, the Chief Rabbi of the Russian Federation has been directly involved in the construction and opening of dozens of kindergartens, schools, a sports complex for Jews, rabbis and synagogues work under his spiritual leadership in more than three hundred cities of Russia and the CIS.
