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Jun 8, 2010Why Some Jews Would Rather Live in Siberia than Israel
Whatever your opinion of Helen Thomas, read why some Jews would rather live in Siberia than Israel. This fascinating article describes how refugees are beginning to return from Israel to Birobidzhan, in the Jewish Autonomous Region in Russia's far east that Stalin established in 1935 for Yiddish-speaking Jews before he turned on it.
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