Russian Jewish
Israel’s democracy needs a place where local disagreements can be resolved - opinion
Until those structures exist, the work falls to Derech Eretz’s groups in Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion, Ashkelon, and other cities with large Russian-speaking populations.
WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot
Former Moscow rabbi says he rebuffed proposal to convert Russians discussed in Epstein recording
Russian-Israeli released from Libyan jail after breaking into Tripoli synagogue
Russian Jews are not a political pawn - editorial
The Jewish community in Russia has grown in recent decades, after mass migration in the 1990s. The current war has led to concerns about their future.
How will banning the Jewish Agency affect Russian Jews? - analysis
There are 150,000 Jews in Russia’s “core Jewish population,” but more than half a million are entitled to receive Israeli citizenship.
Israeli chief rabbis: Don’t overrule Moscow’s chief rabbi
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt is currently in Israel but is overseeing his community from afar. Israel's chief rabbis wrote to Russian Jewish authorities to keep it that way.
Over 20k immigrants to Israel since Ukraine war began; almost half from Russia
The war between Russia and Ukraine is sending out refugees from both sides.
How sanctions made new Russian olim leave Israel
“Most of the people returned to Russia for some time because the decision to come to Israel was urgent and not well-prepared.”
‘Golden Voices’ proves delightful, opens Thursday
Thanks to brilliant writing and performance, the film becomes a universal story of an older couple trying to keep their love alive and fighting to make their way in a confusing new world.
'I was a proud Jew in Russia. When the war in Ukraine began, I knew I had to leave.'
"The decision to leave my country was excruciating," says the author, a born-and-raised Russian Jew.
Bennett offers Putin to mediate end to war with Ukraine
Despite first call between leaders Israel, is ‘unlikely’ to serve as the intermediary between Russia and Ukraine.
For New York’s Ukrainian Jews, a time of waiting and worry
While Ukrainian Jews in NY worry about their relatives in Ukraine, fears are also on the rise for the Jewish community in Ukraine with Russia's potential impending invasion into Ukrainian territory.
World’s first collection of Jewish NFTs launched by JCC Russia
The NFT project digitizes Judaica from the famed Moscow synagogue, such as digital replicas of its “Bima” and "Aron Kodesh."
