COJECO has announced the 12-person cohort of the COJECO BluePrint Fellowship IX. The BluePrint Fellowship brings together a select group of Russian-speaking Jewish innovators, artists, and intellectuals, to explore the link between personal identity and creativity. Chosen through a competitive application and interview process, fellows are able to bring their ideas to life and engaged in this community-wide conversation. Supported by COJECO … [Read more...] about COJECO Announces Newest BluePrint Fellowship
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Season 5 Opens at Camp Gesher, California camp for children from Russian-speaking Jewish families
On August 5, 120 children aged 9 to 14 gathered at Shalom Institute in Malibu, California, for the fifth annual Camp Gesher, an overnight summer program for children from Russian-speaking Jewish families living in the western United States. Camp Gesher was launched in 2014 with the goal of helping strengthen campers’ connection to their Jewish identity, the wider Jewish community and Israel through education, skills-building activities and … [Read more...] about Season 5 Opens at Camp Gesher, California camp for children from Russian-speaking Jewish families
ORT Russia Expands Out of the Classroom
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
Bringing Israel Studies to Russia
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
Critically-Acclaimed Documentary on Russian Jews now Streaming Online
The critically acclaimed documentary trilogy “Russian Jews,” which intimately portrays the stories of Russian Jewry throughout the 20th century, is now available online, courtesy of Genesis Philanthropy Group. Following a record-breaking theatrical release across Russia, a premiere at Israel’s Knesset, sold-out screenings across the United States, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Latvia and Georgia as well as Jewish film festivals in Moscow, … [Read more...] about Critically-Acclaimed Documentary on Russian Jews now Streaming Online
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