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MOSCOW, March 31 (JTA) —The belief that Jews commit ritual murders is alive and well and living in Russia. Some 46 percent of recent callers to a Russian television station said they believed that Jews commit ritual murders. The television anchor who posed the question during a nationwide broadcast said he was shocked by the high level of anti-Semitism among the 3,500 viewers who phoned in. Andrei Cherkizov, the anchor who posed the question, is Jewish.
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