FJC ‘Gan Israel’ Camps Bring In Summer Fun to FSU Youth
For the 27th consecutive year, FJC is operating Jewish sleep-away and day camps in the FSU this summer. Overall there are more than 80 community camps running this season in seven countries as well as four teenage camps operated by the FJC’s EnerJew youth movement. Some camps are in progress, some have already been completed, […]
Jewish Irkutsk Mobilizing to Aid Siberia Flood Victims
15 dead as assistance is sought for thousands in Siberia Chabad.org Staff At least 15 people have been killed and thousands more remain homeless after torrential rains caused severe flooding in the Irkutsk district of Siberia, Russia, near the border with Mongolia. Rabbi Aharon Wagner, Chief Rabbi and director of Chabad Lubavitch in Irkutsk, has mobilized Jewish communities in the […]
Urgent Humanitarian Aid for Flooding Disaster in Irkutsk
by Shaindle Fogelman Torrential rains hit the Russian region of Irkutsk this week, causing the area to declare an immediate state of emergency. Severe flooding forced 3,300 homes across 55 settlements underwater. Hundreds have been admitted to state hospitals and the death toll at 12 is rising. In response, volunteers in nearby Jewish communities mobilized to […]
Darkeinu Celebrates Another Year of Success and Growth
Students and teachers of FJC’s Darkeinu educational curriculum celebrated the completion of yet another successful school year earlier this month, making it the program’s ninth year of continuous expansion and development. Darkeinu includes extensive formal and informal educational curriculums in Jewish studies disciplines; continuous teachers’ education and student contests. It is implemented in over 200 […]
Moscow: Fourteen Students Ordained as Rabbis
This may not be the first group of Yeshiva students to receive Rabbinical ordination in Moscow, but the excitement of it is no less than the first time. Most of these students did not receive a Jewish education as children, yet they worked hard and persevered at Torah learning until they reached this milestone. They […]
First Jewish Youth Center Opens in Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region
An excited crowd gathered around as Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, along with the governor of the Jewish Autonomous Region, Alexander Levintal, and the Chief Rabbi of Birobidzhan, Rabbi Eliyahu Riss, cut the red ribbon, officially opening the first Jewish Youth Center in the Far East of Russia. The new center is located […]
Azerbaijan: FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ school among the top 20
Schools in Azerbaijan are annually evaluated and assessed based on various pedagogical and educational factors by the State Examination Center (SEC). The level of education granted to the students at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ Jewish school in the capital of Baku was rated among the top 20 in the entire country. The school’s curriculum combines […]
EnerJew – FSU’s Jewish Youth Movement – Celebrates 5th Birthday
EnerJew, the Jewish youth movement of the FSU, celebrated its 5th anniversary last week. Launched in 2014 with five cities and an idea of “changing the world”, the movement now amounts to 50 large cities across eight FSU countries, with over three thousand teens who have participated in its seminars, meetings, camps and programs. “Five […]
Darkeinu’s Mega-Shavuot Contest brings the Holiday to Life for Children across the FSU
When Moses brought the Jews to receive the Torah at Sinai, he never knew that his descendants would be learning about and celebrating this day with selfies and hashtags. But #megashavuot5779 is happening and kids from the most remote corners of the former Soviet Union are taking selfies and connecting with other children through Darkeinu’s […]
Putin Unveils Memorial to Jewish Uprisings in Nazi Death Camps
By David Israel | Jewish Press | Photo credit: Mikhail Metzel, TASS, via Kremlin.ru Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday unveiled at Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center a monument to the heroes of uprisings in Nazi concentration camps and Jewish ghettos during World War II, TASS reported. The monument is an abstract composition of black […]