All the Jewish community centers, synagogues and educational institutions for all age groups, were closed down temporarily and transferred as much of the activity as possible to online.

At the behest of Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Moscow’s Jewish Chessed Center is stepping up assistance to the elderly with a twenty-four hour hotline and fresh meals delivered to their doors.

Terror group says Sergey Lavrov conveyed Russia’s readiness to help forge Palestinian unity; Israel reportedly files protest with Moscow against meeting.

The EnerJew youth movement ran over 10 Shabbatons over this winter, brining on the overall more than 1,000 Jewish teenagers together in various cities throughout the region.

Community rabbis from across Russia gathered this past weekend for in Rostov-on-don for a regional Shabbaton hosted by local community rabbis Rabbi Chaim Danzinger and Rabbi Shmuel Stolin.

Gaza-based organization doesn’t say when Ziad al-Nakhaleh will make trip; announcement comes on heels of meeting slated to take place between Russia’s FM and Hamas head.

A drunken man broke into a synagogue in central Ukraine and assaulted a congregant after shouting about “beating up the kikes.”

Possibly the oldest wooden synagogue in Europe, the synagogue in Kostroma, which is over a century old, began to show its age.

The FJC has its ear to the ground and is constantly striving to provide the communities of the former Soviet Union with the services that they need most.