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The new Wall of Names with names of the 3,485 Jews who were deported during Nazi occupation
January 31, 2020, 12:52 pm
City of Nice remembers the thousands forcibly deported
We look at the history of the French city with two shuls that has just dedicated a new Wall of Names
By Robert Levitt
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
A billboard advertising the Novoselye housing firm showing an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man as a money lender, in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 2019. (Courtesy Jeps.ru/via JTA and Times of Israel)
August 17, 2019, 7:11 pm
Russian housing firm removes ‘goodbye rent’ ad featuring Orthodox Jew
St. Petersburg asset management firm takes down billboard which was branded 'definitely antisemitic'
By JTA
Life is as it ORT to be for these children....
April 26, 2019, 11:25 am
ORT gets it together to mark annual celebration
Events took place in more than 25 countries to mark the 139th anniversary of the signing of ORT’s founding document in St Petersburg, Russia, on April 10th, 1880. 
By Jenni Frazer
April 24, 2019, 2:22 pm
How one charity helped start a new chapter in Russia
Every month, over 630,000 Jewish children in 21 countries receive books that the whole family can read together, thanks to the US-based Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF)
By Jenni Frazer
Good Deeds day 2019, Moscow
April 10, 2019, 11:18 am
Moscow takes part in Good Deeds Day
Campaigns were organised by the Jewish student organisation, the Hillel Russia, attracting volunteers in Moscow, St Petersburg and other cities across the country
By Jenni Frazer
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, lays flowers at a place near the Tekhnologichesky Institut subway station in St.Petersburg, Russi (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
April 4, 2017, 12:20 pm
Israel sends condolences to Russia after St.Petersburg bombing
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israelis 'stand alongside' Russians, after the subway attack which killed at least 10
By JTA
March 17, 2017, 10:59 am
Video: A rabbi, a priest, and a gay atheist smoke marijuana together
Two faith leaders and a self-described atheist talk about their spirituality and a shared hope for peace whilst smoking weed
By Gabe Friedman (JTA)
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