Galina Zelenina A Portrait on the Wall and Sprat on the Bread: Moscow Jews between the Two "Sects" Galina Zelenina - Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow). galinazelenina@gmail.com The article examines Jewish religious spectrum in Moscow, which in the main can be extrapolated to all of Russia. Special attention is given to the two extremes of the spectrum - ultraorthodox Chabad Lubavitch and Reform, or Progressive, movements. Based on published sources as well as interviews with people from various groups of Moscow Jewry, the research analyzes key strategies of community building and self-representation of Chabad and Progressive Judaism, on the one hand, and the reception of these strategies and related practices, on the other. The study of these data allows to explicate the rapid and seemingly comprehensive success of Chabad as opposed to the failure of Reform Judaism in post-Soviet Russia, as well as some other alternatives in religious behavior of Moscow Jews including either the establishment of small communities or sticking to the Orthodox Choral synagogue albeit without regular attendance. Keywords: Judaism, Russian Jewry, Moscow, synagogue, Ha-sidic Judaism, Chabad Lubavitch, Reform Judaism. The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant 15 - 18 - 00143 "Problems of interethnic contacts and interactions in the texts of oral and written culture: Slavs and Jews". Zelenina G. Portrait on the wall and sprats on bread: Moscow Jews between two "sects" / / State, religion, Church in Russia and abroad. 2015. N 3 (33). pp. 121-169. Zelenina, Galina (2015) "A Portrait on the Wall and Sprat on the Bread: Moscow Jews between the Two 'Sects'", Gosudarstuo. religiia, tserkou' v Rossii i za rubezhom 33(3): 121 - 169. page 121The EPIGRAPH to this article is a story about three episodes that occurred in the summer of 1994 - the year when the seventh and last Lubavitcher rebbe, the leader of Chabad Hasidi ... Read more