Article: Return to Berlin: Jewish population growing again in Germany's capital.

Jewish POPULATION Growing Again in Germany's Capital

Georgi Fogel chose a momentous day to move to Berlin. On November 9, 1989 - the day the Berlin Wall fell - the Russian Jew decided not to go back to his Moscow home.

"I had wanted to go away for a long time," he says, sitting in a stylish care in former West Berlin. "It wasn't economic, though. My salary was good. I just didn't feel at home in the Soviet Union."

"There was always anti-Semitism [in Russia]," he explained. "In communist times, it was almost official."

Thousands of Russian Jews have followed suit since then, almost doubling Berlin's Jewish population to about 12,000 ...

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