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You are here: Home / Life in the FSU Countries / Near China Border, Russian Prime Minister Joins Dedication of Jewish Center

Near China Border, Russian Prime Minister Joins Dedication of Jewish Center

December 24, 2015 By eJP

The classically-designed structure houses a synagogue, a Jewish school, study rooms, a mikvah, religious library, charity center, and more. Photo courtesy Chabad.org/News.
The classically-designed structure houses a synagogue, a Jewish school, study rooms, a mikvah, religious library, charity center, and more. Photo courtesy Chabad.org/News.

This past Friday saw the grand dedication of a brand new Jewish Center in the far-eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, a major Pacific port city on the Sea of Japan, close to the China and North Korea borders.

The inauguration was hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shimon Varakin, rabbi of the Jewish community of Vladivostok, and included many special guests and dignitaries including Russia’s chief rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar; the chief rabbi of S. Petersburg, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Pewzner; and Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, who is also the nation’s former president.

Roughly a nine hour flight from Moscow, and the terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway which links the city to Moscow, Vladivostok is home to close to 5,000 Jews. The newly refurbished Jewish Center building dates back more than 100 years and was returned to the Jewish community about ten years ago after being appropriated by the communists during the Stalinist era.

Since its return, the property has undergone extensive renovations in order to meet the growing needs of the city’s thriving Jewish community.

Courtesy Chabad.org/News
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  1. Ruth Ellen Gruber says

    December 24, 2015 at 10:57 am

    Please see more about this and other news regarding the Russian far east here — http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2015/12/20/news-from-the-russian-far-east-synagogue-reopening-and-jewish-heritage-survey/%E2%80%9D

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