The World Jewish Congress plans to launch a campaign to persuade Russia to make restitution for Jewish communal property seized after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The group said it decided on the move after being urged to do so by the speaker of Israel’s Knesset, Avraham Burg.
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