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• In Conversation: Russia\'s Chief Rabbi On Russia and the Jews Today  By : B. Olidort
  Even by Western standards, Moscow’s Jewish infrastructure is impressive. In the Marina Roscha part of the city, a complex of buildings houses the community\'s comprehensive social and educational institutions catering to Moscow’s Jewish population.   The erosion of Jewish life during communism makes Jewish population numbers hard to evaluate, but by the country\'s Chief Rabbi\'s estimates, there approximately half a million Jews in this city of 10 million.  Daily, 1000 Jewish people on average come
• First Karaite Jewish Conversions in Over 500 Years  By : Nehemia Gordon
  The historic and first known Karaite conversion ceremony since 1465, when a group of Spanish Christians became Karaite Jews in a Cairo synagogue.