Particularly instructive is Sharon’s recent visit to Moscow. He noted the development in Russia of the cultural and religious life of the Jewish community: it is a kind of “Golden Age.” This would seem good, but the Israeli prime minister continued thus, much on the contrary: “This worries me, due to the fact that we need another million Russian Jews.” What distresses Sharon here is not the danger of antisemitism but, on the contrary, the danger of assimilation.

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