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Chabad couple made to pay $100K for homeschooling their children in Sweden

Swedish law allows homeschooling under “special circumstances,” but not religion.

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 21, 2019 7:53 am

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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

Evgeny Velikhov recounted for the first time publicly obtaining Mikhail Gorbachev’s permission for an event many had thought impossible.

April 19, 2019 8:14 am

Jewish Sunday schools pop up across Europe and Asia

Three months after its launch, the JFUTURE network has 400 students in communities from Montenegro to Japan.

February 15, 2019 11:22 am

Russian Jews honor New York-born Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 21, 2018 6:56 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

Chabad leader accuses Sweden of ‘persecuting’ couple who home-school their kids

October 19, 2018 1:11 pm

In rare rebuke, a Russian chief rabbi slams missile transfer to Syria as ‘mistake’

October 5, 2018 12:08 pm

Moscow gets 1st kosher sushi restaurant

July 6, 2018 8:41 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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