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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.
Boris Spiegel (Wikipedia/Author "Official SIF"/ Source: SIF archives/ Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))
March 29, 2021, 10:45 am
Russian-Jewish billionaire and communal funder arrested for alleged bribes
Pharmaceuticals mogul Boris Spiegel held in Moscow in connection with a corruption investigation
By JTA
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Wikipedia/ Author WL959 / Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0))
January 31, 2021, 11:47 am
Russian university fires lecturer who denied Holocaust
International relations lecturer Vladimir Matveyev told teachers 'no gas chambers were found to kill people in concentration camps' and and 'six million dead Jews are a fiction'
By JTA
George Blake, double KGB agent, who escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, after serving five and a half years of his 42-year sentence for giving away Government secrets.
December 28, 2020, 8:02 pm
Cold war double agent George Blake dies aged 98
Infamous spy who was jailed for giving state secrets away and escaping from Wormwood Scrubs in 1966 was born to a Sephardic Jewish father
By Jewish News Reporter
Prison (Photo by Eric Ward on Unsplash)
October 21, 2020, 10:42 am
Jewish prisoner in Russia goes on hunger strike to get Shabbat off
Danil Beglets said authorities are punishing him for declining to work on the Jewish Sabbath and not providing with him with kosher food
By JTA
Obninsk
October 17, 2020, 12:38 pm
‘Nuclear’ synagogue opens near Moscow
City of Obninsk, home to around 400 Jews, was built to house staff at world's first power plant
By Jewish News Reporter
Moscow's skyline (Wikipedia/Deensel)
October 1, 2020, 12:07 pm
Three Russian students to live in second Moishe House in Moscow
This new residence in the historic centre of Moscow will be the home of three young students whom are active members of the capital’s Jewish community.
By Jenni Frazer
Moscow's skyline (Wikipedia/Deensel)
July 27, 2020, 2:57 pm
Holocaust survivor, 90, stabbed to death in her Moscow apartment
Body of Irina Shur, a former professor at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, was found at her apartment late last week
By JTA
Rabbi Berel Lazar meeting with Russian president Putin
June 9, 2020, 2:47 pm
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has the coronavirus
Faith leader is reportedly 'under medical supervision' and that his 'health is out of danger'
By JTA
Arkhangelsk at night (Attribution: Engine9 at Russian Wikipedia/ (CC BY-SA 2.5) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/legalcode )
April 19, 2020, 12:43 pm
Synagogue torched in northern Russia
Russian Jewish Congress’ Northern Region said in a statement that the arson was the third assault on communal property since 2015
By JTA
Viktor-Vekselberg (Wikipedia/ Aleshru/ (CC BY-SA 3.0) / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
April 10, 2020, 3:55 pm
Russian-Jewish businessman donates 3,000 meals to elderly under lockdown
Free meals being offered by Viktor Vekselberg to those over the age of 65 stuck at home due to the virus 
By JTA
Moscow's skyline (Wikipedia/Deensel)
December 20, 2019, 1:50 pm
Dozens of Israelis detained for hours at Moscow airport
Diplomatic correspondent at the Hebrew daily Yediot Aharanot, was among those detained, tweeting how he was separated from others on the flight
By JTA
Naama Issachar
December 20, 2019, 1:48 pm
Russian court rejects appeal of Israeli woman accused of drug smuggling
Naama Issachar, 25, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in October following her conviction for smuggling marijuana into the country.
By JTA
Migration 101: Landing in Israel after making aliyah
December 20, 2019, 1:30 pm
Quarter of Russian immigrants to Israel may have left after getting passports
Approximately 8,500 emigres from the FSU have come just for the passport before immediately leaving the country.
By JTA
Anniversary celebrations at the School of Modern Drama Theatre
November 29, 2019, 12:57 pm
Landmark 25 years marked by Hillel Russia
Anniversary included performances from a circus act, a storytelling dance, enactments from Woody Allen’s collected stories and a song from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess
By Stephen Oryszczuk
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