Chanukah, the Festival of Lights, is widely celebrated in Dnepropetrovsk. On the first night of Chanukah, the candle was lit in the city’s main Menorah at the ''Golden Rose'' Synagogue.

On the evening of December 1, Moscow’s Manezh Square hosted a Chanukah Menorah lighting.

Hundreds of young Jewish people from all over Europe gathered together last weekend in Brussels, Belgium, for the European Centre for Jewish Students’ annual ‘Party Like a Jew’ weekend.

Daniel Diker, a noted foreign policy and media expert, was nominated as the next Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress (WJC).

Richard Goldman, one of the most influential Jewish philanthropists in the country, died early Monday morning in his native San Francisco. He was 90.

Irene Klass, publisher of The Jewish Press weekly newspaper, has died.

Following the opening of a spacious new building, an unprecedented number of Jewish residents attended synagogue services during the High Holidays. One week before Chanukah, they keep coming back.

In the west Siberian city of Tomsk, the historic synagogue has been completely restored and it has been crowned with a new dome.

The Consul General of the Czech Republic in Donetsk, Antonin Murgash, and the Vice-Consul for Economic Affairs, Ladislav Horák, paid a visit to Dnepropetrovsk. The dignitaries toured the central Golden Rose Synagogue as well as the construction site of the Menorah Jewish Center, which will be the world's largest Jewish center.

A weekend filled with excitement, adventure and lots of fun is in store for over 500 young Jewish people at Party Like a Jew, on 26-28th November in Brussels, Belgium.