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Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler, right, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, center, and Roman Kogan attending a Limmud event at the Lviv opera house, November 6, 2016. (Boris Bukhman)
November 8, 2016, 8:30 am
Jews gather in Ukrainian city that honors alleged Holocaust perpetrators
Nearly 1,000 attend concert and ceremony to mark ten years of Jewish learning conferences in former Soviet Union
By JTA
Residents of Vishnyeva gather outside Shimon Peres’s childhood home to pay their respects on the day of his death, September 28, 2016. (Courtesy of Limmud FSU)
September 28, 2016, 11:06 pm
In Belarus, locals pay respects at Peres’s childhood home
Nobel laureate and ex-president, who lost family members when Nazis reached Vishnyeva, ‘brought pride to our village through his life and accomplishments’
By JTA
File: Participants at Limmud FSU's first-ever conference in Belarus, which took place in 2013 in the city of Vitebsk. (Courtesy)
May 15, 2016, 1:47 am
Belarus capital receives first Limmud Jewish learning event
The fledgling Jewish community in ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’ is making a comeback, say organizers
By JTA
Eduard Tumansky, third from left, with fellow Simcha musicians, September 3, 2013. (Courtesy of Simcha)
February 6, 2016, 2:27 pm
The Jews who built this city on rock and roll (and klezmer)
How one spunky band grew out of Soviet Russia to form a Jewish community
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Andrey Makarevich plays some Yiddishe jazz at the closing event of Limmud FSU Lviv, on Saturday night (Courtesy Boris Bukhman)
November 11, 2015, 9:06 am
In Ukraine, Jews connect with ‘kosher-style’ dose of Judaism
Pluralistic learning conference Limmud brings 700 Russian speakers to Lviv for a fortifying dollop of spirituality and culture, but goes easy on Israel and religion
By Jessica Steinberg
A delegation of Israelis and Ukranians commemorating the family of Yitzhak Rabin, in his father's hometown. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
November 6, 2015, 4:07 am
Remembering Rabin in his father’s hometown
The prime minister’s former aides make a journey to Sydorovychi, the Ukrainian village where Nehemia Rabin was born and raised
By Jessica Steinberg
Author Amos Oz (center) and family watching the film documenting daughter Fania Oz-Salzberger's roots tour to Ukraine, Dec. 10, 2014. (Olga Noa Lavie /Limmud)
December 11, 2014, 12:18 pm
Amos Oz ‘overwhelmed’ by film documenting family’s past
Celebrated Israeli author touched by daughter’s journey retracing his mother’s steps in Ukraine
By Yifa Yaakov
Yosef Mendelevitch visiting St. Petersburg Airport, November 30, 2014. (Photo credit: Roman Yanushevsky, Courtesy of Limmud FSU)
November 29, 2014, 2:02 am
Former refusenik makes first visit to St. Petersburg since 1970
Renowned ‘Prisoner of Zion’ Yosef Mendelevitch speaks at Russian conference 44 years after attempted hijacking of plane to Israel
By JTA
Lviv, Ukraine (Wikimedia Commons/Lestat/Jan Mehlich/CC BY-SA 2.5)
November 15, 2014, 1:58 am
Lviv in dark about survival tale
Remarkable story of Jews surviving in western Ukrainian city’s sewers virtually unknown by locals
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)
November 14, 2014, 3:31 pm
Limmud FSU goes back to Galicia, to build a Jewish future
Away from the tumult of war, Limmud Lviv brings Jews from the former Soviet Union together for an intense weekend of learning — and community building
By Yifa Yaakov
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