A Top Jewish Leader Stabbed in Moscow

A young man with a swastika tattooed on his chest walked into a Moscow synagogue and repeatedly stabbed a prominent Jewish leader in the latest incident of anti-Semitism in Russia. Leopold Kaimovsky, the 52-year-old director of the Jewish Cultural Center at Moscow’s Choral Synagogue, was in grave condition after surgery at a Moscow hospital, a doctor said. The alleged attacker, identified as 20-year-old Nikita Krivchun, was detained by guards at the synagogue and then turned over to police. The Interfax news agency described him as a student at a Moscow law school. Russia has seen a recent wave of attacks against synagogues.