Yesterday President of Russia, Mr. Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance...
Month: January 2018

Volgograd Holocaust Picquet Draws Local Support
This Friday, ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance day, over a dozen activists from the Volgograd Jewish Community organized a...

Israeli Medics Train Rostov Community Activists
A group of 17 students and ‘Or Avner’ school staff from Rostov-on-Don, Russia spent a full week of their winter...

EnerJew School of Madrichim Develops Local Leadership
Over a hundred Jewish teenagers gathered in Minsk, Belarus last week to learn how to become informal education gurus and...

YAHAD Yeshivacation Trip: a “Transformation”
Earlier this month a group of 40 young men from Russia and the FSU went on a learning trip to...

Chanukah Miracle Celebrated Widely Across the FSU * Special Gallery
Hundreds of Jewish communities across the former Soviet Union organized Chanukah celebrations during the 8 days of the festival of lights,...

East Ukraine: First Ever EnerJew Seminar in Donetsk
A one-of-a-kind Shabbaton seminar for Jewish teenagers took place in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine last month, organized by the EnerJew youth...

Finalists Chosen in Darkeinu’s Olympics Contest in the FSU
Over 1,300 kids from Jewish schools across the FSU participated recently in the first rounds of FJC’s Darkeinu Olympics contest....

Darkeinu’s Mega-Chanukah Connects FSU Jewish Kids
Over 1,000 responses from 35 cities across the FSU were sent to Darkeinu’s Chanukah trivia contest last month and over...

Tragedy: Moscow Jewish University Student Killed in Driving Accident; Another Critical
In a serious driving accident this Friday on the road between Rostov and Sochi in Russia, a student of the...