Limmud conference to launch in Moscow
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2012
The first of six Limmud conferences for Russian-speaking Jews will open in Moscow.
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Moscow synagogue firebombed
Jewish Journal
July 12, 2011
A synagogue in Moscow was attacked with firebombs.
Russia expels Israel’s military attaché over espionage claims
Jewish Journal
May 19, 2011
Israel\’s military attaché in Moscow was arrested and expelled earlier this week, it was revealed on Wednesday, with sources saying that the top Israel Defense Forces officer was questioned over espionage suspicions.
Jewish funeral home to open in Moscow
Jewish Journal
March 21, 2011
A city funeral home in Moscow will be converted to a Jewish funeral home, the only one in the city. The funeral home will operate under the auspices of the Moscow chief rabbinate, the Bais Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue and the Chevra Kadisha Hamerkazi Jewish burial society of Moscow, according to Rabbi Sheah Deitsch, a Jewish burial society member and Chabad emissary in Moscow.
Bombing at Moscow airport seen as terrorism [VIDEO]
Jewish Journal
January 24, 2011
A bombing at the busiest airport in Moscow that killed at least 31 and injured 130 is being called a terrorist attack by Russian officials. \”From the preliminary information we have, it was a terror attack,\” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said of Monday\’s attack on the Domodedovo Airport in a televised briefing. Medvedev also said that those responsible for the attack would be \”tracked down and punished.\” All Moscow transportation services went on high alert following the attack. Israel canceled all flights to Moscow.
31 dead, 130 hurt in suicide bomb at Moscow’s busiest airport
Jewish Journal
January 24, 2011
At least 31 people were killed and 130 wounded Monday in a suicide blast at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, Russian Health Ministry officials said.
Moscow exhibit gives a voice to Jewish Red Army soldiers
Jewish Journal
July 1, 2010
Lev Fein, a Jewish soldier in the Red Army, returned home to Minsk in 1945 to find a letter about his family being wiped out by the Nazis and the dire consequences of the occupation for Belarus Jews.
Madoff scheme deals new hit to FSU Jews
Jewish Journal
December 24, 2008
The Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard Madoff is the latest in a string of financial blows to Jewish aid programs in the former Soviet Union, wiping out a major foundation that was the primary funder of Jewish higher education in Russia
Melancholy Russian soul flourishing in immigrants
Sandee Brawarsky
October 23, 2008
In an interview, the Moscow-born author, who immigrated to the United States at the age of 7, admits that she, too, has a lingering Russian soul. Her well-written and very enjoyable first novel recasts Tolstoy, as its title suggests, observing immigrants from the former Soviet Union, body and soul.
Falling dollar hurts seniors in former Soviet Union
Jewish Journal
June 19, 2008
After his wife died, the worker still came but less often, until global economic pressure forced the JDC to scale back operations for the \”least needy\” in the former Soviet Union. Six months ago, Zheleznyak began having to fend for himself.
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