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Former Soviet Union
Discovery in Ukraine inspires a community
Former Soviet Union
Prayers and study at new center in Haditch, Ukraine
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The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, billed as the world’s largest Jewish museum, invites visitors to experience the story of the Jewish people as told through the lens of the many generations living in Russian-speaking lands.
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Mikhail Gorbachev, the iconic Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, has embraced the Jewish revival his policies helped set in motion, telling Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar that “Russia is good for the Jews and Jews are good for Russia.”
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The world’s largest Jewish community center opens to the public this Sunday with a 10-hour schedule of events, but the buzz around the new Menorah Center in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, is palpable following the private opening yesterday of its Jewish Memory and Holocaust Museum.
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Built in the shadow of the 16th-century fortress surrounding the closest Jewish community to the town of Lubavitch, Smolensk’s historic synagogue reopened this week, decades after its Communist-era closing.
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One group, comprised of Mendel Mondshine and Mendy Bekerman of Moscow and Yisrael Gotlieb of Nikolayev, took their camera with them to share highlights of their trip.
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In neither name nor origin, Togliatti is not your typical Russian city. Its moniker evoking more Italian countryside than Communist-era river port, the city itself was built in 1964 after waters from the Volga River inundated the city of Stavropol during the construction of the Kuybyshev Dam and Hydroelectric Station, and Kuybyshev Reservoir.
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A Russian man’s involvement in his local Jewish young professional’s group and the discovery of an old chest of antiquities containing Judaica hidden away by his grandparents during the height of Communist oppression has led to his undergoing ritual circumcision at the age of 26.
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Jews in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernigov took to the water last week, celebrating the springtime holiday known as Lag B’Omer by taking a cruise a local river.
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A group of elderly Jews in Ulyanovsk, Russia, launched a new twice-weekly prayer group.
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In the city where almost 70 years ago, Nazi forces committed the biggest single atrocity associated with the Holocaust in Russia, the local Jewish community is building programming models aimed at uniting Jewish youth across the country.
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Following a report in local and international media regarding the arrest of two Azerbaijani citizens who were allegedly involved in a plot to assassinate two Jewish educators and the Israeli ambassador in Baku, the Federation of Jewish Communities of the Former Soviet Union announced that educational activities were continuing in the capital.
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The Jewish community of Odessa had a lot to celebrate when, under the protection of a police guard and a parade route closed to traffic, it marked the concurrent dedications of a new synagogue, Torah scroll and orphanage.
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Typically, the Federation of Jewish Communiies’ annual awards are given to Jewish writers, philanthropists and social activists, but things took a different turn this time around.
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Less than a month after celebrating the dedication of a new Torah scroll, the small, but historic Jewish community of Kremenchug, Ukraine, was forced to again deal with anti-Semitism after a Molotov cocktail ignited a fire and damaged its synagogue’s exterior.
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More than two centuries after the release of chassidic leader Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi from a S. Petersburg prison, corrections officers in the Russian metropolis joined Jewish community officials in dedicating a synagogue in the city’s newly opened Yablonevka Prison.
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The Jewish community in Zhitomir, Ukraine, is celebrating a series of accomplishments, from the construction of a new fence protecting its local cemetery to the recent circumcisions of three boys and one 60-year-old man who decided to embrace their heritage.
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A new synagogue that just opened in the Primorskiy District of S. Petersburg, Russia, has opened a world of possibilities for many in the local Jewish community who previously could not walk to Sabbath services.
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More than six decades after Nazi forces and their sympathizers destroyed the New Synagogue of Koenigsberg during the Kristallnacht series of pogroms in November 1938, Jewish residents of the renamed city of Kaliningrad are planning to rebuild the 1896 edifice on the same spot where it once stood.
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