Moscow

Major-General Matvey Weinrub, left, and writer Konstantin Simonov on the Hallesche-Tor-Brücke Bridge over the Landver Canal in Berlin, Germany in May 1945. (From the collection of the Moscow Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)

Moscow’s Jewish museum uploads previously unseen photos of Berlin’s Soviet occupiers

The unscripted pictures were to be shown at a festive launch of the 75th Victory Day, but have been made accessible online because of the COVID-19 lockdown.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 12, 2020 5:26 pm

The Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in Moscow, Russia. (Wikimedia Commons/Sergeiy Estrin)

Moscow congregation told to self-isolate after synagogue’s rabbi gets coronavirus

Gershon Lisus is a healthy man who never smoked yet is fighting for his life due to lung complications, his wife said.

March 24, 2020 2:26 pm

Dozens of Israelis detained for hours at Moscow airport

The incident may have been revenge for Israel blocking incoming Russian tourists

December 19, 2019 11:25 am

Fire, believed to be arson, strikes Moscow yeshiva during seder

By Marcy Oster April 21, 2019 10:21 am

Netanyahu, in Moscow, thanks Putin for help in return of soldier’s body

By Marcy Oster April 4, 2019 9:21 am

Netanyahu to meet Putin in Moscow 5 days before election

By Marcy Oster April 2, 2019 7:14 am

Netanyahu meets with Putin in Moscow to discuss Syria

May 9, 2018 1:19 pm

Moscow college student barred from exam after refusing to remove kippah

January 24, 2018 2:47 pm

In unusual criticism, Israeli envoy blames Russia for blocking international anti-Semitism definition

February 15, 2017 8:22 am

Moscow has world’s second-largest Limmud

April 27, 2015 7:59 am

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