Seven hundred copies of the Tanya, the basic book of Chabad Chasidic philosophy, were gifted to the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Community.

In supermarkets in Russia’s northern capital S.Peterburg, shoppers can now find kosher dairy products.

In 2010, the Orthodox Union certified two Armenian manufacturers whose products – pomegranate wine, natural juices, pomegranate and apricot vodka, and fruit jam – will soon appear on store shelves bearing the OU kosher symbol.

This past week, a meeting took place in the Moscow Jewish Community Center between Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar and the Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region, Ilya Mikhalchuk.

Secular Judaism "brought us Haskalah and maybe 'Big Brother,' but Jewish culture that provides a new Jewish language - this it did not bring," former Shas leader Aryeh Deri said on Tuesday at the annual Herzliya Conference.

The Great Choral Synagogue of S. Petersburg has published the book "Jewish Tradition: Burial, Mourning and Remembrance."

Orthodox marriages may be happier than their secular counterparts, but religious unions are rocky enough to concern a team of researchers and rabbis who presented the results of their recent study on marital satisfaction at the Orthodox Union.

Bishop Richard Williamson has called the discussions between the Vatican and his Society of Saint Pius X a “dialogue of the deaf.”

As part of the "Scribes" publishing project, a new book in the series "Library of Jewish texts" (BET) was released.

For the first time ever, kosher table wine from the renowned Massandra Winery in the Crimea, which is known for its high quality product far beyond Ukraine's borders, is being produced under Kosher supervision.