Russia

Russia has a full-time surgeon whose only job is circumcising Jewish men

Dr. Yeshaya Shafit, Russia’s only mohel for adults, travels across the former Soviet Union to correct a historical wrong.

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 6, 2020 10:18 am

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Yael Ilinsky votes for a second time at the Russian consulate in Haifa, Israel in June 2020. (Yael Ilinsky/Facebook)

Israeli citizen faces criminal charges for voting 3 times in Russian referendum

Yael Ilinsky says she documented herself breaking Russian law to expose problems with the voting process in her native country.

July 31, 2020 10:26 am

Yad Vashem apologizes for ‘unfortunate errors’ in films screened at Auschwitz commemoration

The apology is a rare admission by Israel’s state Holocaust museum that it has been dragged into European politics of memory.

February 3, 2020 5:55 pm

Up to a quarter of Russian immigrants to Israel may have left after receiving passports

By Sam Sokol December 17, 2019 2:38 pm

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This Holocaust-themed figure skating costume is just the sport’s latest to cause scandal

By Stacy Mintzer Herlihy December 4, 2019 11:49 am

Russia has acquired an advanced Israeli air-defense missile that failed to detonate

By Marcy Oster November 6, 2019 12:15 pm

Netanyahu intervenes in case of Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia, but can’t strike deal with Putin

By Marcy Oster October 13, 2019 3:52 am

Immigrants from Russia on their way to Israel at Helsinki airport in November 2018. (Courtesy of International Christian Embassy Jerusalem)

With Putin cracking down on democracy, Russian Jews are increasingly moving to Israel

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 17, 2019 5:25 pm

Volodymyr Zelensky, second from right, waves to supporters at his campaign headquarters in Kiev, Ukraine, April 21, 2019. (Xinhua/Sergey/Getty Images)

Netanyahu will try to mediate between Russia and Ukraine in Kiev, Russian media says

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 12, 2019 4:27 pm

Israel blames Russia for GPS disruptions on planes around Ben Gurion Airport

By Marcy Oster June 27, 2019 11:10 am

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