MJ: Hi Yosef Yitzchak it’s great to talk to you. Can you tell us what you’re doing in Moscow?

Yosef Yitzchak Lifshitz: Hi. Actually I was born in Israel — my saba and savta live there and all my aunts and uncles and we fly back there every year to visit them. But when I was three my abba was sent to Moscow to be the rav of the Chabad center in Schukino a neighborhood in Moscow so we all moved here.

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