In a politically suspicious expulsion, an Israeli citizen, Rabbi Asher Krichevsky, his wife, and their six children were told they 15 days to leave Russia.

His punishment comes after Krichevsky was fined 2,000 rubles, or about $50, for selling kosher wine from the Chabad House without a liquor license.

Optimists in the Obama State Department have nevertheless accentuated the positive by commenting, anonymously, “In the old days, under George W. Bush and his Republican predecessors, Jews were exiled to Siberia. Now, they are expelled from Siberia. The ‘reset button’ we pushed is responsible for the new direction.”

See http://forward.com/articles/205113/russian-officials-order-deportation-of-chief-rabbi/#ixzz3CKH9IhTd