In Moscow and in Saint Petersburg demonstrations for Israel; graduation ceremony in the “Machon Ran” Yeshiva; a Jewish picnic in the largest Moscow park.Read More
Jews commemorate tragic date in history, when a Jewish convert and the Jew who taught him Judaism were both burned at the stake; “Seyfer”, the oldest Jewish studies program in Russia, has started its summer session.Read More
Teachers from Russia, Ukraine and Moldavia attend conference on how to teach the Holocaust; contest called to build a memorial for Yuri Levitan, Soviet newscaster during the Nazi era.Read More
Conference on Russian tourism in Israel, held in the beautiful Metropol Hotel; lecture on Soviet films about the Holocaust; Jewish organization founded at Moscow State Medical University.Read More
The Moscow culture project Eshkolot participates in the Jerusalem Festival of “Slow Reading”; a conference on Isaak Babel; a documentary about the Israeli poet, Leah Goldberg.Read More
Two communities receive Torah scrolls for their synagogues; a trip through a town built as a copy of Jerusalem with Russian-Orthodox holy sitesRead More
Moscow Conference, “Russia in World War I”, co-sponsored by the US Holocaust Museum in Washington; Alexander Petsherski, hero of the death camp Sobibor, is honored posthumously.Read More
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The State Russian Museum is preparing an exhibition in honor of Birobidzhan’s 80th anniversary and a study by the Russian Jewish Congress reveals that Anti-Semitism is growing in the Russian media, the scandal surrounding the conductor Vladimir Spivakov.Read More
A memorial honoring the Polish rescuer of Jews Irena Sendler is erected in Moscow, the Israeli professor Dan Harran gives a lecture on Jewish music of the Renaissance and Anatoli Kaplan‘s paintings are displayed at the Jewish museum.Read More