Limmud FSU

January 10, 2022, 2:12 pm

Limmud FSU Israel event ‘builds robust dialogue’

Three-day get-together at Kibbutz Shefayim welcomed 700 participants and volunteers for a programme of more than 130 sessions for adults, plus others for children.

October 23, 2021, 12:10 pm

Limmud Ukraine celebrates Jewish life

Attendees learned about Ukraine’s post-Holocaust history, social media marketing in the Jewish world, and the work of artist Marc Chagall,

July 5, 2021, 12:16 pm

Russian-speaking Jews return to old-school face time on the west coast

150 people bid farewell to on-screen gatherings and said hello in-person at Limmud FSU in Palo Alto

Some of Limmud FSU’s events last weekend

June 9, 2021, 1:18 pm

Face-to-face activities restored in Moscow for Limmud FSU

Delegates came together outdoors along the city’s canal for Limmud FEST, the first face-to-face event since last spring and 15 years since the first staging of the festival.

Straight to the point: Participants in the Limmud Labs programme

November 13, 2020, 6:40 pm

Tech funding project aims to help bolster Jewish life

Limmud Labs, a £1.5M initiative that distributes micro-grants, has Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs as a partner alongside Russian-language learning organisation Limmud FSU

By Jewish News Reporter

The aim is to support Russian-speaking Jews

June 12, 2020, 11:21 am

New funding for Russian-speaking community labs

Russian-language Limmud FSU launched its Community Labs project this week, in collaboration with the Israel’s Ministry of the Diaspora and Genesis Philanthropy Group,

By Jewish News Reporter

March 22, 2020, 11:19 am

Hundreds of Russian-speaking Jews gather for Limmud FSU

Three-day event was attended by Austrian ministers and coincided with the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp

By Jewish News Reporter

September 6, 2019, 12:05 pm

Two shuls in Hungary and Moldova to reopen after years of neglect

Rumbach Synagogue in Budapest and Lemnaria shul in Chisinau will be revived and used once more, decades after falling into disrepair

By Jenni Frazer

May 24, 2019, 2:41 pm

Son of Japanese diplomat who saved Jews sets the record straight on his father

Speaking at a recent Limmud FSU event in Minsk, Belarus, Nobuki Sugihara downplayed some of the stories about his father, in whose name a museum opened in Japan in 2000

By Jenni Frazer

Participants at the latest Limmud FSU, which took place in Moscow. (Nikolay Yakubovskiy)

April 26, 2019, 10:59 am

Limmud FSU honours Rabbi Steinsaltz at massive Moscow event

A record 2,100 participants enjoyed more than 350 lectures, panels and a children’s programme.

By Jenni Frazer

Rabbi Berel Lazar meeting with Russian president Putin

October 6, 2018, 11:39 am

Russian chief rabbi criticises Putin’s missile transfer to Syria in rare rebuke

Chabad leader Berel Lazar says Moscow's decision to give Bashar Al Assad advanced anti-aircraft missiles is a “mistake”

By JTA

May 24, 2018, 3:46 pm

Limmud FSU in Manhattan: Russian Jews celebrate Israel’s 70th in New York

Younger members of New York's Jewish community from the former USSR enjoyed new surroundings for their annual Limmud get-together

Limmud FSU partipants during a Havdalah ceremony

Credit Eli Itkin

May 4, 2018, 1:48 pm

Limmud FSU Moscow: Thousands join learning festival

More than 2,000 young Jews, passed through the doors of the cultural conference’s 12th festival of learning in the Russian capital

Aaron G. Frenkel and Matthew Bronfman light a torch. credit Yossi Zeliger

April 19, 2018, 5:13 pm

Limmud FSU Warsaw: March recalls Shoah victims

Young Jews from Russian-speaking backgrounds took part in the annual March of the Living last weekend, and lit torches at Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the six million Jews

Participants at Limmud FSU's global summit, which was aimed at sharing knowledge

April 19, 2018, 5:09 pm

Limmud FSU Warsaw: Summit ‘boosts identity’

Poland's chief rabbi warned against overreaction to the country's recently enacted controversial Holocaust law

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