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Russian Leader
Advances 'Protocols'
Moscow (JTA) —
Metropolitan Johann of St.
Petersburg, the second-
highest-ranking clergyman
in the Russian Orthodox
Church, has once again
stirred controversy by issu-
ing new anti-Semitic
statements.
The 62-year-old church
figure has posed the ques-
tion of whether the
"Protocols of the Elders of
Zion" were authentic, referr-
ing to the infamous 19th-
century tract that purported
to expose a Jewish con-
spiracy to take over the
world.
The "Protocols" were ac-
tually a fabrication written
for the czarist secret police.
Mr. Johann raised the
question in a lengthy article
titled "The Struggle for
Russia," published in late
February in the notoriously
anti-Semitic and hard-line
communist paper Soviet-
skaya Rossiya.
In the article, Mr. Johann
said a smart man will draw
his own conclusions about
the "Protocols," and he jux-
taposed excerpts from the
"Protocols"- with dire
descriptions of the state of
Russia today.
Last October,
Metropolitan Johann stirred
controversy with another
piece in Sovietskaya Rossiya
that explained the killing of
Jesus and the imposition of
Communist rule in Russia as
being part of a single con-
spiracy, implying it was
Jewish-dominated.
After publication of that
first piece, a spokesman for
the head of the Russian Or-
thodox Church, Patriarch
Alexei II, issued a statement
disassociating the church
from Mr. Johann's opinions.
At the time, a church
source requesting anonym-
ity said Metropolitan
Johann was sick,. but would
not elaborate.
In the wake of this latest
incident, Russian Jews were
looking for a stronger state-
ment this time.
Rabbi Adolf Shayevitch,
recently elected chief rabbi
of Russia and head of
Moscow's Choral Syn-
agogue, told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency he has
written to the patriarch ask-
ing him to look into the
matter.
Mr. Johann's latest out-
burst comes on the eve of an
interfaith _conference het-
ween Jews and represent-
atives of various branches of
the Orthodox Church, in-
cluding the Russian Or-
thodox Church, set to begin
in Athens on March 21.
The conference is signifi-
cant, as it marks the start of
a first-ever dialogue between
Jews and Orthodox
believers, said Michael
Chlenov, co-president of the
Vaad, the largest Jewish
umbrella organization in the
former Soviet Union.
Mr. Chlenov, who will at-
tend, said he intended to
raise the matter of Johann's
public statements with
Alexander Kazha, the Rus-
sian patriarch's liaison to
the Jewish community.
Mr. Kazha was expected to
attend the Athens con-
ference. The Athens meeting
is being sponsored by the
International Jewish Com-
mittee for Interreligious
Contact, the body that offi-
cially represents world
Jewry in dialogue with other
religious groups.
Youths Arrested
In Arson Case
Bonn (JTA) — Two teen-age
members of a neo-Nazi group
confessed last week to a 1991
arson attack on a hostel for
asylum-seekers in the
southern German town of
Reilingen.
The October 1991 attack
resulted in heavy damage
but no injuries to persons.
The perpetrators, ages 16
and 17, are members of the
National Comrades Action
Front. They told police they
were motivated by hatred of
foreigners.
They also told authorities
that neo-Nazis were proud
that their campaign of at-
tacks in the eastern German
town of Hoyerswerda, had
been successful in forcing
authorities to evacuate
asylum-seekers from hostels
and had been supported by
crowds.
Hoyerswerda was one of
the first places where refu-
gees were openly attacked in
the newly united Germany.
Last week's confessions
follow other arrests of right-
wing extremists for torching
asylums.
Last week, prosecutors in
Stuttgart charged five men
with torching a refugee
hostel in the town of Mur-
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