A synagogue on the outskirts of Moscow burnt to the ground on Tuesday, Jewish community representatives and fire officials in the Russian capital said. The 1930s synagogue in the village of Malakhovka, 20 kilometers north of Moscow, was made entirely of wood and burned too fast to be saved, a fire service official told the ITAR-TASS news agency. Arson has not been ruled out by investigators working at the scene. Russia's Jewish community has come under frequent attack from far-right nationalist groups in recent years, and a wave of anti-Semitic attacks in mid-2003 left several people wounded. "The day before yesterday we had a burglary, today it was arson," Malakhovka Rabbi Moshe Tamarin told a local radio station. Russia's chief rabbi, Berl Lazar, said it was the first incident of its kind for many years and made no direct link to anti-Semitism. "There has not been such an act in Russia in recent years, so there is no talk of a pattern," he said on Russian television.