Limmud FSU

Russian chief rabbi, Reform dissident in London for event for ex-Soviet Jews

The Limmud FSU learning conference is making its Western Europe debut with a broad spectrum of speakers for 650 participants.

Israel wants ‘butcher’ Assad ousted, defense minister says

Avigdor Liberman's remark, made amid reports of wholesale massacre in Aleppo, was an unusual departure from Israel's policy of nonalignment on Syria.

Novelist Etgar Keret says privacy behind reluctance to publish in Hebrew

One of Israel's best-known writers told a Russian-Jewish audience that his son forbade him to publish one book in Israel, where critics subsequently questioned his patriotism.

Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler, right. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi and Roman Kogan attending an event at the Lviv opera house on Nov. 6, 2016. (Photo: Boris Bukhman)

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Nearly 1,000 Jews gather in Ukrainian city that honors alleged Holocaust perpetrators

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Residents of Shimon Peres’ Belarus birthplace gather outside his childhood home

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Israeli war hero orphaned in Holocaust remembered in Russia

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European, Israeli Jews gather undisturbed in predominantly Muslim city in Russia

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Russian Jews posthumously honor Elie Wiesel, who fought to free them

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Belarus capital receives first Limmud Jewish learning event

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Despite rising emigration, 2,000 Russian Jews expected for Limmud Moscow

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