anti-semitism in russia

Synagogue torched in northern Russia

Security camera footage showed an arsonist starting the fire at Arkhangelsk’s newly opened Northern Star center.

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 13, 2020 10:09 am

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A screenshot of the promotional code sent by Sberbank to Artem Chapaev (Artem Chapaev/Twitter)

Russian bank sends client promotional code containing the phrase ‘kill Jews’

Sverbank, which is mostly state owned, at first denied sending the code and then said it was randomly generated.

November 22, 2019 7:34 am

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.

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

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 15, 2019 5:08 am

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

By Cnaan Liphshiz 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

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