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.

 RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS attend an event in 2015 in Jerusalem marking the 25th anniversary of the great Russian aliyah from the former Soviet Union to Israel.
Students participate in the hackathon at WIZO Nachlat Yehuda.

WIZO Rishon Lezion youth village teens create fact-checking bot

Ehud Barak, a former prime minister of Israel, announces the establishment of a new political party that he will lead, in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019.

Former Moscow rabbi says he rebuffed proposal to convert Russians discussed in Epstein recording

Interior of abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Illustrative.

Russian-Israeli released from Libyan jail after breaking into Tripoli synagogue


Russian-speaking Jews in Los Angeles have a new place they can call home

Moishe House is "a place where young adults in their 20s come together and create vibrant Jewish communities."

Russian-speaking young Jews from the Former Soviet Union came together and experienced Israel through Birthright Israel’s ‘Taglit on the Carmel’ event

Navalny protests hit Israeli streets as Tel Aviv calls for his release

Protesters gathered near the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, carrying signs in Hebrew, English, and Russian reading "Free Navalny."

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is escorted by police officers after a court hearing, in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia January 18, 2021.

Remembering the emigration of Soviet Jewry - opinion

Today, America is home to 750,000 Russian-speaking Jewish citizens, one tenth of the Jewish population of the United States.

FORMER REFUSENIK and Soviet prisoner, Israeli politician, human rights activist and author Natan Sharansky with his mother after he landed in Israel on February 11, 1986.

Short film shows Birthright through the eyes of Russian Jews

For Horesh, the issues raised in the film speak to innate inequalities inherent in the Chief Rabbinate's laws.

Nataliya Olshanskaya plays Natasha in "Birth Right." (Ilya Marcus)

Mikhael Mirilashvili: Making an impact from Georgia to Israel

Mirilashvili is a leader in the international Jewish community with a focus on countries in the former Soviet Union.

Mikhael Mirilashvili, an Israeli-Georgian businessman and philanthropist

‘Ethnicity, not religion, focus of post-Soviet Jewish identity’ – study

“We are quite confident that the process of ethnic and cultural assimilation of former Soviet Union Jews and their families is reversible.”

A large menorah in the central square of Birodjan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia

Israeli gov't looking to harness tech impact of Russian-speaking Jews

Limmud Labs is designed to find young people like Brin, and “empower them to be active in their local and greater Jewish communities,” Omer Yankelevich, Israel’s minister of Diaspora Affairs said

Whatsapp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum

Russian Jewish Congress thanks Zuckerberg for banning Holocaust denial

Facebook's decision is "a very important step towards addressing online anti-Semitic hate and extremism that has been recently on the rise in social media".

Viktor Vekselberg

Israeli citizen faces criminal charges for voting three times in Russia

Yael Ilinsky, who lives in the Israeli city of Nahariya, said she posted pictures of herself voting three times to expose fraud.

Russian President and Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin at a polling station during the presidential election in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2018

If you seek his monument, look around – in memory of Ilia Salita

Mourning the loss of Ilia Salita, who helped strengthen the Jewish identity of Russian-speaking Jews.

Ilia Salita