Q: Are you at peace with your decision to leave Russia? He chooses his words carefully, making plenty of controversial remarks, and still, after 33 years of experience in Russia, it’s obvious that he isn’t allowing himself to reveal everything that went on behind the scenes. These days, he is busy dealing with refugees from Ukraine. He sits in front of a half-empty bookshelf, which holds a Talmud set and a few other books. “Suddenly, I don’t have to stay quiet,” he says, smiling.Subscribe to The JNS Daily Five months after he left/fled Russia-which has changed its face and turned into what he describes as “Iran”-he says that, for the first time in decades, he feels at ease. Goldschmidt, 59, speaks to Israel Hayom from his new office in the Kanfei Nesherim neighborhood of Jerusalem, which he received as president of the Conference of European Rabbis. “If they ever make a movie about us leaving, they’ll portray it as if it was in the middle of the night. After being questioned briefly, we flew to Budapest via Istanbul, and since then we haven’t returned to Russia.” I explained that my father was in the hospital in Israel, and I wanted to visit him.
“At the airport police stopped us and asked us why we were leaving. “We got to the Moscow airport, each of us carrying a single suitcase, and that was it,” Goldschmidt says in an interview with Israel Hayom’s weekend magazine. (Israel Hayom) On March 7, 2022, about a week and a half after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt-who was then still the chief rabbi of Moscow-and his wife Dara left their home in the Russian capital, hoping to get out of the country as quickly as possible.
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