Currently, the priest and his wife are “in exile.”
Chief Rabbi Moscow's Pinhas Goldschmidt has left Russia because of government demands to publicly support the war in Ukraine, journalist and his daughter-in-law Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt said on Twitter.
Rebecca Daru Goldschmidt, the authorities put pressure on them to publicly support the “special operation” in Ukraine, and they refused, “she wrote.
to Hungary to raise funds to help refugees, the family later flew to Israel after the rabbi's father was hospitalized in Jerusalem. Chief Rabbi of Moscow was replaced by David Yushuvaev. At the same time, with the help of Israel's chief rabbis, the Russian rabbis re-elected Goldschmidt to a position he had held for more than 30 years.
Chizhik-Goldschmidt added that exiled from the community in which they loved, built and raised their children for over 33 years. ”
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