Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich, a chief rabbi of Ukraine, accused Russia of staging anti-Semitic “provocations” in Crimea in order to justify its invasion of the former Soviet republic.
The prickly Ukrainian media mogul is unfazed by critics who charge that he presides over a farcical organization that exists to burnish the ego of its founder.
At the Jewish Agency for Israel’s first Board of Governors meeting in the former Soviet Union, Natan Sharansky was elected to another term as the agency’s chairman.
