Well it's not the only plot in town.
Acts of Faith: What does it mean that Putin gave a Christmas Tree to the Jewish capital of Russia?
Birobizhan was the "Jewish Autonomous Region" created by Stalin so that the Jews could have a "homeland" and not want to emigrate to some non-Communist place. Most of the Jews who ended up there wanted to be someplace else.
Birobizhan is enjoying a Jewish religious revival but for a very long time it was really the last place you could find Judiasm or Jews.
Did he really? That's hysterical. What an idiot.