Record Snowfall in Moscow: Chesed Center Increases Activity
After record snowfall in Moscow leaving 1 dead and others injured, the Shaarei Tzedek Jewish Chesed Center has increased activities for those in need. Moscow, the capital of Russia is used to the cold and snow. But in the last few days, all records were broken as snow fell continuously and piled up to great […]
Estonian community member crowned world karate champion
EJC | WKF Estonia’s Li Lirisman won gold in the U21 Female Kumite -55kg at the Cadet, Junior & U21 Championships of the European Karate Federation held in Sochi, Russia. The 20-year-old karateka returned to the top of the podium two years after her last big success in international competition. Lirisman became the underage World […]
Jews from all over Russia win trips to Paris — by studying Judaism
By Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA MOSCOW (JTA) — Growing up in a working-class family in Russia’s Far East, Sergei Aryeh Zolotov knew the French Riviera only from what he’d seen in James Bond movies. A student in his 20s from the city of Khabarovsk, 4,000 miles east of Moscow, Zolotov had neither the means to travel […]
ZOOM Seminars ‘Warm Up’ FSU Winter
Over 1,000 young Jewish adults will take part this winter in a series of week-end self-development seminars throughout Russia, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan organized by YAHAD, FJC’s young adults’ programming platform. Called ZOOM, the seminars are spread out geographically by regions, and are taking place every weekend starting from the end of January to March. […]
A century-old Siberian synagogue was built by abducted child soldiers. It’s back in Jewish hands.
By Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA | Photos: By Cnaan Liphshiz TOMSK, Russia (JTA) — When two strange men approached 8-year-old Herzl Tsam in an alley of his hometown in what is now Ukraine, he knew that he had to run as fast as his legs could carry him. In 1851, as a Jewish boy from a poor family in […]
Siberian synagogue built by former child soldiers returned to Jewish community
By Cnaan Liphshiz | JTA | Фото: Саша Прохорова TOMSK, Russia (JTA) — A Siberian wooden synagogue that was built in 1906 by Jews who were abducted as children and conscripted into the Czar’s army was returned to the local Jewish community. The Jewish community of Tomsk last year received control over the Soldiers’ Synagogue, which is one […]
Putin, Netanyahu Commemorate Holocaust Victims in Moscow’s Jewish Museum
Yesterday President of Russia, Mr. Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Israel, Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day at FJC’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. The two leaders participated in an inauguration of the memorial honoring resistance heroes at ghettos and concentration camps, to be built at the museum. A cornerstone […]
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 standing demonstration at one of the city center intersections. The event, called “Citizen Solidarity”, brought together Jewish teenagers and Holocaust survivors, carrying posters listing Jewish mass murder sites in the Soviet Union during WorldWar II. […]
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 break this year studying first aid and CPR skills with representatives of Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency unit. The express course – a joint initiative of the MDA and the Rostov Jewish community – provided […]
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 lead group activities, camp sessions and youth programs during a five-day learning seminar organized by the EnerJew youth movement. The seminar is part of a two-year training program called the School of Madrichim that EnerJew […]