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Life in the FSU Countries

ORT Russia Expands Out of the Classroom

August 10, 2018 By eJP

ORT Russia has partnered with J-Camp, a leading Jewish Summer camp in the Moscow region, founded and supported by Genesis Philanthropy Group. Together they opened the first ORT Robotics Lab in one of their summer camps. Throughout the duration of J-Camp, kids aged 6-10 who have chosen to work in the lab learned how to construct and program their own robots and solve basic and advanced robotics exercises, under the direction of Mikhail Dichenko … [Read more...] about ORT Russia Expands Out of the Classroom

Filed Under: Life in the FSU Countries Tagged With: Genesis Philanthropy Group, ORT, summer camp

EnerJew Grand Shabbaton Rocks Belarus

August 3, 2018 By eJP

(FJC-CIS) A unique event marked the end of the season for the EnerJew Jewish youth movement this year. About 250 movement activists from 41 FSU cities gathered in Minsk, the capital of Belarus for the 5-day Grand Shabbaton seminar last week. Belarus is known for its rich history of Eastern European Jewry and the seminar’s organizers used the location as a kick-off point for the event’s general theme - “Explore Your Roots, History and … [Read more...] about EnerJew Grand Shabbaton Rocks Belarus

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Jewish Ukraine after Maidan

June 27, 2018 By eJP

[This essay is from Contact, a publication of The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life. Reprinted with permission.] By Josh Tapper Aaron Kaganovskiy had lived in the coastal city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine for nearly six peaceful years before the fighting began. One day in the early months of 2014, he noticed that the Ukrainian flags once flying above the city had been burned, replaced by those of Russia. Constant mortar shelling … [Read more...] about Jewish Ukraine after Maidan

Filed Under: Life in the FSU Countries, The Blog

Bringing Israel Studies to Russia

June 7, 2018 By eJP

Israel Institute and Genesis Philanthropy Group partner to bring a course on modern Israel to Russia’s leading international studies university By Noa Levanon Klein Last month, representatives of the Israel Institute, Genesis Philanthropy Group, the Israeli embassy, and the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) gathered to celebrate a successful run of the Russian university’s first-ever dedicated course on Israel. The … [Read more...] about Bringing Israel Studies to Russia

Filed Under: Life in the FSU Countries Tagged With: Genesis Philanthropy Group

Almost Like Returning Home

June 3, 2018 By eJP

By Lev Gringauz There is a pit in Minsk, Belarus, that is simply called the Pit, or “Yama” in transliteration. It was where 5,000 Jews from the Minsk Ghetto, among them my family members, were murdered by Nazis. During the time of the Soviet Union, KGB officers were stationed there to make sure no Jews stopped to mourn. The memorial, then, only mentioned the deaths of Soviet citizens at the hands of the brutal fascist regime. My father and … [Read more...] about Almost Like Returning Home

Filed Under: Life in the FSU Countries, The Blog

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