On November 27, the David Baazov Museum of History of the Jews of Georgia and Georgian-Jewish Relations in Tbilisi opened exhibition named Fragments from the History of Lithuanian Jews.
46 schools an 23 kindergartens are participating in the contest this year, among them high-schools in Jerusalem and Haifa, Kyiv, Moscow, Riga, and Khabarovsk.
Residents of Kalush, one-third of whose population were Jews prior to WWII, take off work and school to give a piece of their shared history a much-needed facelift.
The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers — Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik — who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of Nobel-prizing winner writer S.Y. Agnon.
Founded by a band of liberated Jewish Cantonist soldiers in 1818, this small Siberian community has donated to communal causes worldwide — and been threatened with expulsion.
Amidst much fanfare, The Jewish community of Dnipro gathered together to celebrate the reopening of its lifesaving boys’ Children’s home and Orphanage.