As Jewish kindergartens and schools across the FSU take their summer vacation break, FJC’s Darkeinu Jewish heritage learning program uses the time to review year-end results and develop new initiatives for the upcoming September.

About 1,000 young Russians who attend Jewish studies in Chabad clubs were rewarded with a week-long European tour. As well as visiting tourist sites and learning more about Judaism, several even came back engaged

Speaker of the Israeli Knesset Yuli Edelstein visited Moscow last week, where he spoke at the Russian Parliament and later met with the heads of the country’s Jewish communities and participated in FJC’s YAHAD youth forum.

Birobidzhan Jewish community, located in the historic Jewish Autonomous region in Russia’s Siberia will soon get the first mikvah ritual bath in the region’s history.

Odessa Jewish University celebrated the graduation of its senior class last week, marking the program’s 10-year anniversary.

Nineteen rabbinical students graduated from the High Torah Yeshiva Academy in Moscow last week.

As the school year across the FSU region has come to an end, the EnerJew movement’s weekly club meetings in its 39 cities are also taking a break for summer vacations.

In Hungary, the main Jewish organization is the Hungarian Jewish Federation (MAZSIHISZ), which has a great history and tells a lot about the Hungarian Jewry.

A new children education center opened its doors in FJC’s Jewish community of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, yesterday

After a long period of preparations, construction finally began to renovate and expand the historic synagogue of Bryansk, South-West Russia.