The sense that Russia is growing increasingly illiberal is helping drive a surge of emigration by Jews there to Israel in the past four years.

Seventy-eight years after Nazis threw out Jews from Hekdesh Shul, the Jewish community buys building back.

The Petersburg Grand Choral Synagogue participated in the city-wide commemoration of the Siege of Leningrad and the thousands of lives it has taken last week, among them many Jewish ones.

Rabbi Yisrael Melamed led a celebration opening a magnificent new Mikvah and the inauguration of a historic synagogue in the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia.

A touching celebration of Jewish continuity and vivacity took place in Kharkov, Ukraine recently – a 150-year old Torah Scroll was restored and inaugurated at the local community by the original owner’s 6th generation descendant in honor of his upcoming wedding.

A Holocaust monument in Ukraine was vandalized with graffiti and a note threatening another genocide.

The prime minister makes a quick pre-election sortie to meet with the Russian president, and ends up with plenty of time for self-reflection.

The Association of Jewish Organizations and Communities with the support of donors reconstructed Jewish memorial in order to establish a Holocaust Museum of Bukovinian Jews.

Ukrainian Jews oppose plans to build a monument with the Russian roots at the site where more than 30,000 Jews were murdered