Russian Jews

For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, COVID-19 lockdown loneliness is debilitating

Organizations like the JDC are calling elderly, often poor Jews to make up for the social networks the pandemic has destroyed.

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 25, 2020 5:04 pm

Employees of the Airports of Regions firm preparing meals for Russian over 65 on March 31, 2020. (Courtesy of Airports of Regions)

Russian-Jewish businessman donates 3,000 meals daily to senior citizens under lockdown

The initiative is a response to the Russian government’s decision to order all citizens older than 65 to refrain from leaving their homes over the coronavirus.

April 7, 2020 3:56 pm

Russia’s westernmost synagogue rebuilt 80 years after Kristallnacht destruction

Once a symbol for the devastation of European Jewry, Kaliningrad saw the inauguration of a mammoth shul that the Nazis torched in 1938.

November 8, 2018 3:14 pm

A tiny Russian village of Chabad fame dreams of starting its own Jewish pilgrimage tradition

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 30, 2018 5:13 pm

Azerbaijan’s Mountain Jews museum is part of a dying community’s rescue plan

By Cnaan Liphshiz August 20, 2018 1:15 pm

World’s northernmost JCC opens in Russian Arctic city

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 26, 2018 10:52 am

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich reportedly immigrating to Israel

May 25, 2018 2:50 pm

Know your oligarch: A guide to the Jewish machers in the Russia probe

By Ron Kampeas May 22, 2018 5:40 pm

Polish Holocaust speech law won’t affect program for Russian Jews visiting Auschwitz, rabbi says

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 25, 2018 7:55 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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