''Not wearing the kippa can save lives and nothing is more important,'' Marseilles Jewish community leader Zvi Ammar said.

EnerJew, FJC’s Jewish youth movement across the FSU, announces the opening of a new branch in the city of Briansk, Russia.

Youngsters and students from the Jewish community of Kherson, Ukraine, set out last week to show their respect for the deceased members of the community by cleaning up and renovating the local Jewish cemetery where they are buried.

“Kantor's big fear is that Lauder will be able to find an attractive candidate that will tip the scale and take Kantor's position away from him.”

Lila Kagedan, who received her ordination from New York’s Yeshivat Maharat in June, was the first to take on the moniker usually reserved for her male counterparts.

Some 4,000 Jewish athletes from at least twenty countries attend in Santiago, capital of Chile, the Pan American multi-sport Maccabi Games.

 Members of Germany’s largest local Jewish community reelected Gideon Joffe on Monday to a new four-year term as the head of the organization, amid objections from the opposition party.

There are 200 plants in Russia, which have a certificate of Kosherity, the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Russia told Interfax-Religion on Wednesday.

Thousands of Jewish pupils across the former Soviet Union, pupils at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish schools, participated last week in the first stage of the 3rd annual ‘Darkeinu’ Olympic Jewish heritage quiz for 2015.

Movement comes out against comments made about education minister's visit to Conservative-associated school in New York earlier this month.