Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldshmidt left Russia because of the demands of the authorities to publicly support the war in Ukraine, the journalist and his daughter-in-law Avital Chizhik-Goldshmidt said on Twitter.

“Finally, I can share that my relatives, Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldshmidt and Rebbetzin Daru Goldshmidt, were pressured by the authorities to publicly support the “special operation” in Ukraine, and they refused,” she wrote..

According to her, at first the clergyman and his wife Dara Goldshmidt went to Eastern Europe, in particular to Hungary, to raise funds to help refugees, later the family flew to Israel, as the rabbi's father was hospitalized in Jerusalem.

The Mediazona publication notes that Goldschmidt left Russia in early May, and David Yushuvaev replaced him as Chief Rabbi of Moscow..

At the same time, with the help of the chief rabbis of Israel, the Russian rabbis re-elected Goldschmidt to the post that he held for more than 30 years..

Chizhik-Goldshmidt added that since the moment they refused to publicly support the “special operation”, the clergyman and his wife “are in exile from the community in which they loved, built and raised their children for more than 33 years”.

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