Moscow, May 23, Interfax – The Moscow Jewish Community organizes fifty festival events for adults and children on the occasion of Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar’s birthday.

Festival actions will be timed to Lazar’s birthday according to the Jewish calendar: this year it is June 8. As to the Gregorian calendar, Lazar celebrated his jubilee on May 19, when the Russian President and the Prime Minister also congratulated him.

All festival events will take place in the “Jewish triangle” – a district of Moscow between the Jewish museum, the educational center and the charity center in Maryina Roshcha in north-west of the capital.

Master classes for adults, training for children, presentations of the Jewish community’s new projects will be held all day long. Everyone can personally congratulate Rabbi Lazar during the party.