only to return to Russia after communism to “make Judaism great again” there, as he put it. He has one son serving as an emissary of Chabad in Uganda, another in Cyprus and a third in Budapest.

KALININGRAD, Russia (JTA) — Walking to school and back, Michael Wieck twice a day would pass by one of Europe’s largest and most spectacular Jewish places of worship: Koenigsberg’s New ...

More than 1,200 Soviet-and Russian-speaking Jews gathered last weekend at the Parsippany Hilton for the 15th annual Russian-Jewish Shabbaton. Described by organizers as the largest gathering of ...

TASS/. The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia has called to refrain from mentioning nationalities, warning that this could hurt interethnic relations, Rabbi Alexander Boroda, the president ...

With the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine coming up, he has returned to Ukraine a few times and noted that ...

An astounding compilation of primary source documents dealing with all aspects of Jewish daily life in the Russian empire This book makes accessible—for the first time in English—declassified archival ...

An extensive Jewish quarter from the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria has been found near one of the world’s most ancient synagogues in Russia’s Taman Peninsula, north of the Black Sea.