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June 13th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
A new exhibit spotlighting rare books from the disputed Schneerson Library collection, featuring 12,000 books and 50,000 rare documents, has opened at the Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance in Moscow.
The Schneerson Library, which boasts a selection of rare Hasidic
religious books and documents, was started in the early 20th
Century by Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson in the Russian city of
Lyubavichi (present-day Belarus). Part of the collection later
came to be nationalized by Soviet Russia as there were no legal
heirs in the Schneerson family.
Earlier this year, a US court issued a ruling according to which
Russia would be required to pay US$50,000 a day to Chabad
Lubavitch, an Orthodox Jewish movement headquartered in New York
City, until it releases the historic Schneerson Library of which
the Jewish group claims rightful ownership.
The roots of the conflict go back to 1994, when the Library of
Congress obtained seven of the rare Schneerson Library books from
the Russian State Library through an inter-library exchange
program.
The books were handed on to Chabad-Lubavitch. But since then the
US library helped to prolong the use of the books twice, in 1995
and 1996, before the Jewish organization finally refused to
return the books back to Russia in 2000.
Chabad-Lubavitch used diplomatic channels to propose another
‘exchange’, sending a list of the books they were ready to
give back in return for getting the seven abovementioned books
into indefinite possession. In 2004 the movement filed a lawsuit
against Russia, claiming the Russian part of the Schneerson
Library in full. In 2010 an American court actually granted their
claim, which Russia ignored as invalid.
Moscow is currently working on a lawsuit against the US Library
of Congress over the rare collection. In January, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the recent decision of the US
court, ruling to fine Russia US$50,000 daily until it surrenders
the texts, “has nothing in common with justice.” The
collection is the “heritage of the Russian nation,”
according to Lavrov.
President Vladimir Putin came up with the idea to house the
unique collection at the Jewish Museum and the Center of
Tolerance in February. The president stated that the Schneerson
Library belongs to the Russian state.
“Sadly, I can only state that the discussion on the issue has
become confrontational, after what I regard as unlawful decisions
taken in the other country’s courts,” he said.
Four thousand five hundred books from the collection, which is
currently stored at the Russian State Library, are set to be
taken to the Jewish Museum and the Center of Tolerance by the end
of the year. The Center’s new library area will function as the
branch of the Russian State Library.
Chabad-Lubavitch is one of the largest Hasidic movements of
Orthodox Judaism in the world with cells in over 1,000 cities
across the world. Founded in the late 18th century by Rabbi
Shneur Zalman, the movement was based in the Russian town of
Lyubavichi until the early 20th century. In 1940, the sixth
leader of the organization, Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn, escaped
from WWII, raging in Europe, to New York, USA, where he founded a
synagogue. The movement’s current official HQ is in the Crown
Heights section of Brooklyn, NYC.
Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Center of Tolerance features permanent
and temporary exhibitions, conference halls, a library, a
research center, a 4D cinema, a children’s center, a museum shop,
and a kosher cafe. Among the first guests of the museum, which
opened in November, were Israeli President Shimon Peres and FM
Lavrov.
Source Article from http://rt.com/news/jewish-museum-schneerson-library-620/
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