anti-semitism in russia

Immigrants from Russia on their way to Israel at Helsinki airport in November 2018. (Courtesy of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem)

With Putin cracking down on democracy, Russian Jews are increasingly moving to Israel

The Jewish state has received nearly 40,000 Russian newcomers over the past four years — more than in the entire preceding decade.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2019 5:25 pm

A billboard advertising the Novoselye housing firm (Cortesy of Jeps.ru)

Russian housing firm removes ‘goodbye rent’ billboard campaign featuring Orthodox Jew

Most participants of a poll said Novoselye’s ad wasn’t offensive but the firm still took it down amid protests by the Jewish Community of St. Petersburg.

August 15, 2019 5:08 am

Russian man gets 2.5 years in jail for anti-Semitic graffiti

The heavy-handed sentence reflects the Russian judiciary’s attitude to hate crimes against Jews, which are rare in that country.

June 7, 2019 9:35 am

Evgeny Velikhov speaking at Limmud FSU Moscow on April 12, 2019. (Courtesy of Limmud FSU)

In Moscow, a non-Jewish physicist recalls helping build the Soviet Union’s only yeshiva

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 19, 2019 8:14 am

Russia’s westernmost synagogue rebuilt 80 years after Kristallnacht destruction

By Cnaan Liphshiz November 8, 2018 3:14 pm

Anti-Semitic attacks are rare in Russia but the sentiment is rife, studies suggest

October 31, 2018 7:46 am

Swastikas daubed on Russian Chabad center in cradle of Lubavitch Hasidic movement

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 21, 2018 6:01 am

Russian court forces ice cream maker to drop ‘poor Jew’ label

August 10, 2018 11:07 am

Flames ravage 19th-century Russian Jewish cemetery

June 6, 2018 6:26 am

Why some Jews in Russia don’t think Putin’s comment about them was anti-Semitic

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 12, 2018 4:02 pm

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