Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Deutch, chief rabbi of Perm, Russia, met with Amir Makhmudov, mayor of the Urals mountain town of Kungur, to discuss the possible development and legal establishment of the local Jewish community.

While he was there, Deutch also toured the locale and visited its several museums, one of which proposed a joint venture between the municipality and Perm’s Jewish community. ...