Community Rabbi receives prestigious award
“I believe that this award belongs not only to me, but also to all the members of the Jewish community,” commented Rabbi Liron Ehdrei, the FJC’s representative and Chief Rabbi of Krivoy Rog, Ukraine, after receiving the award for Jewish culture development from the city’s mayor. The Rabbi added: “I want to especially thank my partners and sponsors, […]
Munich 11 Remembered by Jewish Sochi, Israeli Olympic Athletes
The Sochi Jewish community embraced the Israeli delegation and other Jewish athletes with a welcome from the Chief Rabbi of Russia, and candles and kaddish chanting for the 11 Israelis murdered at the 1972 Munich Olympics The Jewish Press Photo: Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar reading the Kaddish memorial prayer On Sunday, Feb. 9, […]
Sochi ready for Jewish arrivals
JTA – by Cnaan Liphshiz Soft sand and turquoise beaches make Sochi a lovely holiday destination, but this coastal Russian city is less than ideal for providing religious services to large numbers of Jewish visitors. With few native Jews and only one resident rabbi, the Black Sea resort of 400,000 residents would seem ill-equipped to handle […]
Deaf Russian Jewish Group Experiences Israel
HUFF POST It was an unusual sight on Friday night at Judaism’s most sacred site, the Western Wall. Near the blue-and-white Israeli flag, waving over the multitudes of Sabbath prayer-goers, a group of young adults were holding hands and dancing — in complete silence. The group consisted of young deaf Jewish adults, many from Russia […]
FJC presents: How to put on Tefilin?
New: the FJC is proud to present its new special Video production, sponsored by the Leviev foundation, explaining and visualizing in spoken Russian how easy and simple it is to put on Tefilin. The Video is the sixth out of a series of productions soon to become available, which will assist the FJC in its […]
‘Yeshiva Vacation’ attracts professional youngsters
Fifty young students and youngsters from Russia, Ukraine and additional countries from the FSU, dedicated their winter vacation to attend an uplifting experience combining intriguing Jewish heritage studies and selected trips and attractions. The ‘Yeshiva Vacation’ took place in the educational campus of the Yeshiva of Moscow for ten days, and was attended by leading […]
Sochi: new site welcomes Olympic tourists
The Jewish community of Sochi, Russia, has launched a new website geared to serve both the local community and the thousands of tourists visiting the resort city famous for its ski and mineral baths, especially during the winter games of 2014. The new site contains information about the community, prayers and services, kosher meal services, visitor information and contact […]
Sochi Jews Gearing Up For Games
The Pale of Settlement and nearby areas around the Black and Caspian seas, where Jews lived for centuries, were full of cities that had rich Jewish pasts. Sochi was not one of those cities. The emerging Jewish community of post-communist Russia is full of cities that boast a wide range of religious, educational and cultural […]
New rabbis ordinated in Moscow
Rabbinical students from home and abroad celebrated last week the completion of their studies in the Ran institute of Moscow and were officially ordinated as rabbis. The ceremony was attended by Chief Rabbi Lazar and distinguished rabbis from Israel.
Jewish Museum Commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day
The Moscow Times By D. Garrison Golubock Moscow’s new Jewish Museum will commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday for the second year running with a candle-lighting ceremony attended by Holocaust survivors, foreign diplomats and government representatives. “It commemorates the day that the Red Army liberated Auschwitz and freed the Jews who were still held there,” […]