Belarus

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.

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.

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

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

The 19th century building in Porazava is the country’s only intact one of its kind built almost entirely from rubble stone.

Global

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

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

Global

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

Global

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

Global

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

Israel

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

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

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Belarus congregation approved construction atop former Jewish cemetery

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