EnerJew, the Jewish youth movement of the FSU, celebrated its 5th anniversary last week. Launched in 2014 with five cities and an idea of “changing the world”, the movement now amounts to 50 large cities across eight FSU countries, with over three thousand teens who have participated in its seminars, meetings, camps and programs.

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Rabbi Joël Lion pleads with mayor of Poltava, Oleksandr Shamota, to preserve the site where Germans executed thousands of Jews and non-Jews in September 1941: ''You have the authority to choose between justice and injustice.''

A senior state historian of Ukraine said that protests by Poland and Israel about his country’s glorification of Nazi collaborationists was Russian propaganda.

The Filip Government adopted as well the Agreement to sell the land plot for the construction of a new US Embassy compound.

The discussion about inter-ethnic dialogue developed around the Hebrew- and English-language translation of the collection of essays The Key in the Pocket, which features texts by the Ukrainian writers.

A Russian court handed handed a 2-and-a-half year prison sentence to a young man for writing anti-Semitic graffiti on a residential building.

Israeli and Polish ambassadors sign joint letter to Ivano-Frankisvsk mayor.

Russian president launched the memorial inside Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre.

The holiday of Lag BaOmer was particularly joyous in Krasnoyarsk, Russia this past Thursday.

The Jewish community of Brest numbers at over 1500 people now and the Jewish spirit has returned to the city.