Deep in the dark and cold winter of the FSU, the lights of Chanukah will begin to shine on Sunday...
Month: November 2018
Darkeinu’s 5779 Olympics Contest Kicks Off Bigger and Better
FJC’s Darkeinu Jewish studies curriculum kicked off its popular “Olympics” Jewish heritage contest last month in 69 educational institutions across seven...
Jewish Life Thaws in Remote Arkhangelsk
One hundred years after the Communist Revolution, Arkhangelsk builds Jewish community By Lubavitch.com Government archives show that Arkhangelsk, some 750...
Jews of former Cossack fort Irkutsk mark 200 years of prosperity and persecution
‘IRKUTSK BACK THEN WAS TRULY IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE’ Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in...
Dnipro: Grand Reopening of Boys’ Orphanage in Historic Synagogue
Amidst much fanfare, The Jewish community of Dnipro gathered together to celebrate the reopening of its lifesaving boys’ Children’s home...
Historic Synagogue Rises Once Again, Eighty Years After Destruction
Synagogue opens on eightieth anniversary of its destruction by Ashira Weiss – Kaliningrad, Russia | Lubavitch.com NOVEMBER 8, 2018 Destroyed by the...
Russia’s chief rabbi notes favorable inter-religious situation in Russia
KALININGRAD, November 8. /TASS/. Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar has described the interethnic and interreligious situation in the country...
Russia’s westernmost synagogue rebuilt 80 years after Kristallnacht destruction
Extracts from article and photos by Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA KALININGRAD, Russia (JTA) — Walking to school and back, Michael Wieck twice...
History in Birobidzhan: First Mikvah in Jewish Autonomous
After 15 years of anticipation, finally, the concrete was cast for the first Mikvah ever in the Jewish Autonomous Region...
Moscow Opens a ‘Lending Depot’
The new ‘Ohel Chesed’ and Esther’s Cafe in Moscow might be the world’s most interesting “Gemach” – lending organization. A...