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President Peres honors supporters of the FJC 22 Aug 2013 | 12:37 am
Friends and supporters of the FJC’s activities in Moscow and founders of the Jewish School in Baku, Azerbaijan – Mr. Zerach Eliav and Mr. Gad Nisov – were invited today as special guests of the Presid...
Tragedy: floods strike Eastern Russia; relief efforts have begun 21 Aug 2013 | 02:37 pm
Floods hitting Eastern Russia this week, are considered to be the worst environmental disaster in the last 120 years. The waters – expected to remain high for several more days – have already caused m...
An Intimate Look at Life in a Harsh Russian Gulag 14 Aug 2013 | 02:58 pm
BY MAX AVDEEV AND JULIA IOFFE newrepublic.com K-28, a maximum-security Russian penal colony, is located in Yertsevo, in the northern Arkhangelsk region near the Arctic Circle. It was once part of a ...
What Would Stalin Say? 14 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
By Rabbi Berel Lazar My relationship with Reb Shmuel Rohr started about twenty years ago, in the early 1990s. He was visiting Russia on a business trip, looking for investment opportunities. Truth t...
Rostov Mass Murder Remembered 14 Aug 2013 | 11:13 am
Two Hundred people gathered in the memorial site in Rostov to remember the victims of the largest mass killing of Jews by the Nazis in Russia. August 11-12 marks 71 years since the mass killing of 27...
Rostov Community Leads Uplifting Seminar 11 Aug 2013 | 12:25 pm
VIDEO HAS ENGLISH SUBS – CLICK ON CAPTION to get them Click here to view the embedded video. This past week 65 students from 10 cities gathered together for a special 6 day youth seminar promoti...
Wounded Derbent rabbi discharged from Israeli hospital 8 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
Moscow, August 7, Interfax – Derbent Rabbi Ovadya Isakov, who was seriously injured by an unidentified gunman at the end of July, has been discharged from a hospital in the Israeli town of Petah Tikva...
New camp for deaf children opens in Moscow 7 Aug 2013 | 03:50 pm
Special: For the very first time ever, the FJC’s summer camp in Moscow opened a special department for deaf Jewish children, aged 8-14, from across Russia and the Former Soviet Union. The counselors ...
J-teen Shabbaton excites Ulyanovsk 7 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
For the first time ever, the FJC’s Jewish Center of Ulyanovsk, Russia, arranged a Shabbaton-Seminar uniquely for the community’s teenagers. The seminar took place in the city of Tolyatti and consisted...
Update: FJC Rabbi was shot by Muslim terrorist 26 Jul 2013 | 06:50 pm
Derbent, Russia: Dagestan’s government has declared that the shooting of Rabbi Ovadia Isakkov – the FJC’s representative to Derbent – was performed by a member of one of the most extreme Islamic terro...
