The oldest prayer hall of Petersburg, Russia, the ‘Small Synagogue,’ opened its doors to the public after four years of renovations in the days following Rosh Hashanah.
Last month the FJC launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise $28,500 to expand the Or Avner kindergarten in Zhitomir, Ukraine. The expansion is necessary to provide proper schooling for the influx of Ukrainian refugees the city has seen due to the civil war.
With the aim of reconnecting teenage boys with the Jewish education of their youth, Moscow’s Bar Mitzvah project has already prepared 50 young men for their Bar Mitzvah over the past two years.
For the first time in history, the 14th European Maccabi Games, Europe’s biggest Jewish sports event, will start next week in Berlin the place whereJewish athletes were excluded from the Olympic Games in 1936 by the Nazi regime.