Orthodox Christians in Perm are unhappy that the Jewish community is allowed to use the theater building

Orthodox activists sent an appeal to the prosecutor's office. Their worries that the Jewish community without a synagogue holds religious events in the building of the puppet theater.

November 5, 2013 three residents of Perm, who call themselves "Russian Orthodox people" , appealed to the regional prosecutor's office with a request check the legality of the use of the premises by the Jewish community puppet theatre.

The Jewish community center Chabad Lubavitch operates in Perm around ten years old and does not have its own building. In July 2013 the city authorities refused to allocate a site for the construction of a synagogue. Against construction Several public organizations also spoke out.

The community regularly uses the puppet theater for holding religious holidays.

The authors of the appeal to the prosecutor's office ask to check whether the whether with Chabad Lubavitch fees for the use of municipal property in religious purposes, and whether other religious organizations are given opportunity to use this space.

One of the authors of the statement, a parishioner of the Church of the Kazan Icon Mother of God, Sergey Dudoladov, told the Sova Center that the applicants were not would object to the provision of theater space to a community belonging to another branch of Judaism. However, they are against holding "Hasidic, pro-Masonic, anti-Russian" actions in the theater, and believe that the Hasidic "sect" is not place in an orphanage.

According to the applicants, the Hasidim represent a “Jewish elite" that "rules the world" and whose activities are directed against Russia and Russian people.

Orthodox activists hope to be joined other residents of Perm and support their statement.

As part of a joint project of the SOVA Center and the Russian Jewish Congress . Sources

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• Permians asked the prosecutor's office to check why the Lubavitcher Hasidim conduct religious rituals in the puppet theater // IA "Periscope". 2013. November 7.