Students will take part in an ethnographic study of the remaining Jews in Smolensk and Divnogorje; a former refusenik will tell about the Jewish national movements in the former Soviet Union; a Chabad convention attracts about 800 activists.Read More
Festival teaches participants history of Jerusalem through maps and their own field research; Jewish leader visits Russian Orthodox society founded in Czarist times.Read More
International conference about the history of Soviet Jewry; shul in Birobidzhan gets Torah scroll donated by anonymous donor; modern technology makes it possible to read previously illegible manuscripts.Read More
Jewish film festival includes symposium about Jewish personalities in Russian cinema; exhibit on the artist and designer Leon Bakst; Brodski prizes are awarded to the poet Linor Goralik and the artist Olya Kroytor.Read More
Chernobler Rebbe is honored guest at Moscow Choral Synagogue; exhibit presents Israeli technology and other accomplishments; historian Igor Turov gives lecture about the early years of Hasidism.Read More
Jews celebrate Jerusalem Day; klezmer concert celebrates 110th year of Moscow’s Choral Synagogue; Israeli archaeologist Michael Freikman gives lecture at Eshkolot.Read More
4,500 people visit Moscow Jewish Museum on Museum Night; Lev Schlossberg receives award for political activism; 9 animation films chosen for international contest.Read More
Jewish community borrows Holy Ark curtain that once hung in the Irkutsk Synagogue; in Yad Vashem – a new center for researching the history of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.Read More
An evening honoring the Russian-Jewish poet, Shmuel Marshak in Jerusalem; interviews with Holocaust survivors are posted on Victory Day; volunteers in the town of Viazovenka clean the local Jewish cemetery.Read More
More than 800 students participate in the March of the Living; the poet Velvl Chernin gives lectures at opening of Jewish teachers’ seminary; Chabad Rebbetzin conducts web-seminars on the topic, “Raising Jewish Children.”Read More