Belarus

The Red Cross is aiding hundreds of Jewish pilgrims who have amassed at Ukraine’s closed borders

“Mostly we pray and we pray to be let in,” one pilgrim said about his daily life since landing in Belarus en route, he hoped, to Rabbi Nachman’s grave in Uman.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 16, 2020 4:59 pm

In Belarus, young Jews among those picked off street and jailed amid police crackdown on protesters

Artur Raisky and Albert Kengerli had tried to avoid the mass protests against their native country’s autocratic leader, but police arrested them anyway.

August 13, 2020 11:17 am

Belarus Jewish community holds memorial for Kirk Douglas, its most famous descendant

Douglas was born in New York state to Yiddish-speaking Jewish parents from the Mogilev region of Belarus.

February 10, 2020 12:55 pm

The former synagogue of Porazava, Belarus. (Foundation for Jewish Heritage)

Former synagogue in Belarus selling as warehouse for $6,000

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 15, 2019 1:24 pm

Remains of over 1,000 Holocaust victims uncovered during construction work reburied in Belarus

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 22, 2019 7:36 am

People attending a public prayer at the Kuropaty memorial site in Minsk on April 4, 2019. (Photo by Sergei Gapon/AFP/Getty Images)

In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 21, 2019 3:05 pm

Remains of hundreds of bodies discovered at former Jewish ghetto of Brest, Belarus

By Cnaan Liphshiz February 21, 2019 7:38 pm

Armenia’s capital honors Holocaust survivor who coined the term ‘genocide’

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 31, 2018 7:40 am

Immigrant to Israel from Belarus convicted for trying to join Islamic State

December 28, 2017 5:32 am

Marc Chagall’s Belarus hometown celebrates first synagogue opening in a century

November 3, 2017 10:57 am

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