USC Shoah Foundation and Genesis Philanthropy Group partner to create first Russian-language interactive biographies for award-winning ‘Dimensions in Testimony’ program Thanks to a new partnership between USC Shoah Foundation and Genesis Philanthropy Group (GPG), the experiences of Russian-speaking Jews during the Holocaust and World War II in the former Soviet Union will be documented for the first time in USC Shoah Foundation’s … [Read more...] about Survivors and Soldiers: Revolutionary Technology Preserves Living Testimony of Soviet Jewish Experience of Holocaust and WWII
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At Largest Jewish Teen Gathering in the Former Soviet Union, a New Generation Leads and Creates Community
Kiev, Ukraine, November 11, 2017 - For thousands of Jewish teens and young adult leaders in the former Soviet Union, building Jewish life, connecting with one another, and serving their communities have become central tenants to their Jewish identity. That miraculous achievement - a generation after the fall of Communism, upending a legacy of Soviet oppression of Judaism and volunteersim - is being celebrated as more than 400 Jewish teens gather … [Read more...] about At Largest Jewish Teen Gathering in the Former Soviet Union, a New Generation Leads and Creates Community
Hundreds attend Limmud FSU Ukraine Festival
This weekend (November 1-4), 650 members of the Jewish community of Ukraine gathered in Lviv (Lvov) for the 12th annual volunteer-driven festival of Jewish learning organized by Limmud FSU. The four-day conference, dedicated to Israel’s 70th anniversary, took place in the cultural capital of Ukraine for the fourth time, and included more than 120 seminars, lectures, presentations, excursions and workshops, given by an array of international and … [Read more...] about Hundreds attend Limmud FSU Ukraine Festival
Apples, Extra Aid Help Thousands of Needy FSU Elderly Jews Celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Continuing a tradition started before the fall of the Soviet Union thirty years ago, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and its network of volunteers will provide extra aid and traditional Rosh Hashanah treats - including apples and honey - to thousands of poor, elderly Jews across the former Soviet Union. The aid will be distributed in hundreds of locations throughout the region where JDC will also hold scores of holiday … [Read more...] about Apples, Extra Aid Help Thousands of Needy FSU Elderly Jews Celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Tel Aviv on the Black Sea: Odessa, the Cradle of Israeli Culture, Enjoys a Jewish Renaissance
By Rebecca Greig Haaretz.com If you know where to look, the ghosts of Odessa’s Jewish past are everywhere, haunting and playful: in the pizza restaurant blaring “Hava Nagila” across from the Potemkin Steps; in the forshmak (chopped herring), tzimmes and gefilte fish served in the city’s oldest eating establishments; in the Jewish jokes and Yiddish words that pepper local patois; to the sign above an overgrown courtyard that reads “The State … [Read more...] about Tel Aviv on the Black Sea: Odessa, the Cradle of Israeli Culture, Enjoys a Jewish Renaissance
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