This year’s celebration of Hanukka at the Kremlin is very different from the Hanukka of 1977, which Begun spent in the darkness of the Gulag in Siberia, after being arrested in Moscow.
CHIEF RABBI OF RUSSIA Berel Lazar of Chabad on Tuesday presents the Fiddler on the Roof Award to human rights activist and former refusenik Yosef Begun at a Hanukka celebration in Moscow(photo credit: VADIM BRODSKY)ByVICTORIA MARTYNOV