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Article: Academic conference begins interfaith dialogue in Russia
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- February 5, 1997
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
02-05-1997
Academic conference begins interfaith dialogue in Russia.
By Lev Krichevsky
ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 4 (JTA) -- Jewish leaders are voicing appreciation for a conference that was viewed by many here as the first step since the fall of communism toward establishing ties between Jews and the Russian Orthodox Church.
Interfaith dialogue is especially important at a time when Russian nationalists are pushing for a return to the Orthodox Christian values of czarist Russia to fill the ideological void left by the collapse of communism.
A clarification of what Judaism stands for is also important, given the traditional anti-Semitism of some of the Orthodox Church's ...