The revival of Jewish life in the former Soviet Union reached a new peak last week when dozens of Rabbinical students from the Moscow Yeshiva and Rabbinical College graduated with Rabbinical ordination and Schita (ritual slaughter) certificates.

YAHAD, FJC’s youth programming platform, is changing paradigms and squarely focusing on volunteering, learning and community activism this year.

An emotional Bar Mitzvah Celebration was held for three students of FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ Jewish School in the city of Vinitza, Western Ukraine.

Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog visited the Jewish communities of Moscow and Petersburg earlier this week, where he met with local leaders, toured community institutions and discussed plans for further cooperation.

We should celebrate the modern miracles happening among Jews in Russia, Ukraine and other states once under the grip of communism.

The menorah was put on display outside the Pyramid of Peace and Reconciliation.

46 schools an 23 kindergartens are participating in the contest this year, among them high-schools in Jerusalem and Haifa, Kyiv, Moscow, Riga, and Khabarovsk.

One hundred years after the Communist Revolution, Arkhangelsk builds Jewish community.

The Key in the Pocket is a multi-edition collection of stories by three prominent Ukrainian writers — Sofia Andrukhovych, Andriy Lyubka, and Yevheniya Senik — who spent a week at a literary residence in Buchach, Ukraine, the birthplace of Nobel-prizing winner writer S.Y. Agnon.

Amidst much fanfare, The Jewish community of Dnipro gathered together to celebrate the reopening of its lifesaving boys’ Children’s home and Orphanage.