The preliminary hearing, Wednesday, July 27, before a court in Moscow, confirmed the determination of the Russian Ministry of Justice. The liquidation of the Russian branch of the Jewish Agency, an Israeli government body responsible for organizing aliya – Jewish immigration to Israel – could be decided in the fall. The judicial harassment that hits the Jewish Agency, and other organizations of the Jewish community in Russia, is unprecedented since the end of the USSR. These government signals bring back bad memories to the hundreds of thousands of Russian Jews, who suffered state anti-Semitism during the Soviet era. The term...