Rabbi Aba Dunner, executive director of the Conference of European Rabbis, said that he had already warned the Russian government in the past that "the anti-Semitism in the country would not end with words."
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Moscow's Chief Rabbi, said in response to the stabbing incident in a city synagogue that the government should act aggressively against anti-Semitism incidents in the state. (Ilan Marciano)