his year over 30 Jews came to the synagogue in Ulyanovsk to participate in a “Torahthon,” where they studied from 6:00 p.m. until midnight. Ten people even stayed up all night, as is customary, until 6:00 a.m.

-The United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, Hannah Rosenthal, German Member of the European Parliament Elmar Brok and Israel's ambassador to the EU Ran Curiel will be keynote speakers at the Second Conference on Jewish Media in Europe next Monday in Brussels.

The Omsk Synagogue has received a new Torah scroll, written thanks to the joint efforts of Omsk Jews living in different parts of the world! The date for its completion and welcoming the new Torah scroll was scheduled for an auspicious day, Lag B'Omer.

At the Levi Yitzchak Schneerson-Ohr Avner School of Dnepropetrovsk, the summer language camp for primary school students has gotten underway.

In Yerevan, the Mordechai Navi Jewish Community Center was re-opened after major renovations.

Avraham spent three years in the yeshivah, during which he traveled back east to Russia each Passover and summer to help run a boys’ overnight camp, as part of his yeshivah training.

The Jewish community of Zhitomir – a leading member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine – recently held a gathering to honor its World War II veterans. Held at the Jewish Community Center, this event took place on the eve of Victory Day.

Over the weekend of May 6-9, the Chabad Lubavitch Ohr Avner Jewish Community Center in Perm hosted an inter-regional youth seminar entitled “Judaism - the Light of Friendship and Understanding.”

A seminar for Jewish youth from all over southern Russia took place this past weekend.

Israel’s Deputy Minister of Health, Yaakov Litsman, who is currently in Moscow to attend the World Forum of Health Ministers, paid a visit to the Moscow Jewish Community Center in the Marina Roscha neighborhood.