Lina Rozovskaya

Russian Council Feud Heating Up After Kremlin Snub

MOSCOW — A three-year turf war for the soul of Russian Jews has heated up in recent days, as rival community councils — one espousing pluralism, the other dominated by Lubavitch chasidim — have taken their feud to new arenas including rabbinic recruitment and international diplomacy. The two groups, the Russian Jewish Congress and the…