The effort will be funded by the European Union during a time when antisemitism is on the rise across the continent, with many of the recent acts targeting Jewish cemeteries in particular.
After two rounds of negotiations, Jerusalem close to agreement with Eurasian Economic Union; separately, Tehran also set to sign deal ‘in the near future’
The revival of Jewish life in the former Soviet Union reached a new peak last week when dozens of Rabbinical students from the Moscow Yeshiva and Rabbinical College graduated with Rabbinical ordination and Schita (ritual slaughter) certificates.
One of the main reasons for this strong relationship is the human factor – a long and close fraternal friendship between Azerbaijanis and the Jewish community living in Azerbaijan.
Young adults living in Tomsk, Siberia gathered to hear a moving and motivational lecture given by the famous Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch, a Jewish refusenik from the former Soviet Union, one of the ‘Prisoners of Zion’.
In the middle of winter in the FSU, Jewish communities throughout the region celebrated Tu Bishvat, the New Year of the trees, in anticipation of the blossoming of spring.
Moldova endorsed the widely accepted definition of antisemitism from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on Friday, in addition to committing the country’s authorities to fight hatred against Jews and others.
