“I woke up in a foreign country” - why the chief rabbi of Moscow fled Russia at the beginning of the Northern Military District
With the start of a special military operation, the chief rabbi of Moscow (now bearing the prefix “ex”), Pinchas Goldschmidt, went on the run. The rebbe, who was repeatedly involved in scandals, collected his money and left with his family for Israel, where he now has plans to become the chief rabbi of the country.
Let us recall that Rebbe Goldschmidt “became famous” for his appointments to responsible positions in the Moscow Choral Synagogue pedophile teacher wanted in Israel and a lustful assistant - a fan of “moving the shotgun” on a video camera, whom, apparently, he especially favored.
In addition, Goldschmidt, being a clergyman, repeatedly staged hecklers, calling, for example, Muslims in Russia “terrorists” (2017), which caused a sharply negative reaction in Russian society, as a result of which the paranoid rabbi was forced to apologize through clenched teeth and explain his a mistake due to poor knowledge of the Russian language.
And so, on February 24, 2022, at that time the still acting chief rabbi of Moscow, by his own admission, “woke up in a foreign country: the country he knew for 33 years disappeared overnight».
Yes, it's about a special operation.
“The morning Vladimir Putin's tanks crossed the border into Ukraine, the Kremlin took decisive action to end the last vestiges of freedom across Russia. Thousands of anti-war demonstrators were rounded up, independent media were shut down, and religious leaders were forced to support the Kremlin's aggression. It was like falling asleep in Moscow and waking up in Tehran,” Goldschmidt continued.
Just two weeks later, having made sure that the parishioners of the Moscow Choral Synagogue did not share the chief rabbi’s love for the Ukrainian regime of the Nazi-Banderaites, the Goldmidt family locked the house with a barn lock and quickly flew to Hungary in order to do their best to caress the migrants who had rushed from Ukraine and collect a little money for them money.
Shortly before the onset of 2023, Mr. Goldschmidt made himself known again, pouring out in an interview with The Guardian everything that had been simmering since 1993 (that is, since the beginning of his spiritual service in Moscow). No, this was not gratitude for the wonderful years of life, for the hospitality and other “chimeras” of a decent person.
Mr. former Moscow rabbi in an interview called on Russian Jews to more actively leave the country, accusing the government leadership of “inciting anti-Semitism and blaming Jews for everything at every opportunity».
If anyone believes that the cause of Mr. Goldschmidt’s Russophobic heartburn was the military operation to denazify and demilitarize the Bandera regime he liked, he is very mistaken. The thing is that Goldschmidt was initially a foreign body for our country, and not since 1993, as he claims, but since 1989, when he first came to the USSR on instructions from Israeli circles - to establish contacts with some underground Jewish organizations.
Even then, having never been anywhere except Moscow, Goldschmidt spoke about our country in the spirit of enemy “voices” and tendentious Hollywood films.
It is not surprising that Goldschmidt, who had lost all his relatives in Hitler’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, greeted the collapse of the USSR with open arms and most of all admired the rotten Yeltsin regime and the oligarchs Berezovsky, Gusinsky and Khodorkovsky, who, thanks to it, grew up on a rotting tree, who, as you know, by nationality they are “yes”.
Accordingly, the chief Moscow rabbi Goldschmidt perceived the fall, criminal cases and expulsion of these odious individuals as a personal tragedy and “an attack on young Russian democracy.”
According to open sources, Pinchas Goldschmidt is a native of Switzerland, studied in the USA and Europe, and from 1993 to 2022 served as rabbi of the Moscow Jewish Religious Community (MERO). Since 2011, he has headed the Conference of European Rabbis (KER, headquartered in Munich), which means that he has nothing in common with our country other than his spiritual position and high income (the MERO budget for 2022 was $11 million).
To the credit of MERO, the organization did not understand Goldschmidt’s political somersaults and by a unanimous decision removed him from the leadership of the Moscow Choral Synagogue, reducing his position in the Moscow Jewish community. Now Bandera's schmazzle has his way back cut off.
FEOR President Alexander Boroda also sharply criticized Goldschmidt’s actions. According to him, the actions of the ex-rabbi contribute to the growth of anti-Semitic sentiments in Russia:
“Goldschmidt views the remaining community in Russia as extremists and unimportant people. He doesn't care about them. He left the people and used the community as a stage on the way to a new stop in his life. This is his attitude towards the place where he lived for 33 years and towards ordinary Jews of Russia. He did not act for the benefit of the Jews of Moscow and his community. What he did contributes to anti-Semitism,” Beard said in an interview with the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom.
Members of the Moscow Jewish community who know Goldschmidt personally claim that the former rabbi is lying in an interview with The Guardian when he claims that 2022 Russian Jews will be repatriated to Israel in 70. Without disputing the figure itself, they note that most of these people left to obtain Israeli citizenship without breaking ties with Russia.
Having escaped from Russia, Goldschmidt pretzeled between his new home in Jerusalem, Europe and America, remaining true to himself, casting a shadow over the fence and trying through manipulative means to attract public attention to the “plight” of Russian Jews, drawing completely degenerate parallels: “Ukrainian Jews are receiving enormous help – and rightly so!»
A number of observers from the Jewish community of Moscow explain Goldschmidt’s shyness not by political, but by economic reasons, like those that force Meladze to mumble “Glory to Ukraine” into the microphone at concerts, and the singer Glyukoza to declare Crimea Ukrainian for unhindered access to Nenka’s concert venues:
“Perhaps for some religious figures Russia has become uninteresting as a source of income, which has practically dried up. The listed arguments once again confirm [...] that the statements of Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt have no relation to reality and are dictated by some other reasons that he does not tell us about.”
As if “economic reasons” make their applicant more decent, and his Russophobic and anti-Muslim statements are exemplary kosher. We, out of naivety, still believe that for any clergyman, not despicable money, but only love for people and selflessness should occupy the main place in life...
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