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Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center/via JTA)
November 8, 2017, 5:14 am
Moscow museum gives the full picture of Jewish role in 1917 Russian Revolution
While even Vladimir Putin has repeated some myths, Jews were highly represented in establishing Soviet rule — and they didn’t have much choice in the matter
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Alexander Boroda, the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia and the museum’s director general, accepts the UNESCO tolerance prize on November 16, 2016 in Paris. (Courtesy)
November 23, 2016, 5:25 pm
Moscow Jewish museum wins UNESCO tolerance prize
The award comes in wake of resolutions by the UN cultural body denying Jewish connections to Jerusalem holy sites
By JTA
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Jewish Museum in Moscow on January 27, 2015. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO / POOL / VASILY MAXIMOV)
January 27, 2015, 7:48 pm
Attempts to rewrite Shoah history ‘unacceptable,’ says Putin
At Moscow commemoration, Russian president speaks out against efforts to belittle Red Army’s role in stopping Nazis
By AFP
The $351 million Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. (Flickr/JTA)
September 22, 2014, 10:52 am
Holocaust a tool to explore genocide at Canadian museum
‘Examining the Holocaust’ is biggest of 11 galleries at the $351m. human rights museum that opened in Winnipeg, Manitoba on Saturday
By Josh Tapper
The Jewish Museum And Tolerance Center in Moscow (Photo credit: Vimeo screen capture)
June 14, 2014, 8:13 am
Thousands celebrate Moscow festival honoring chief rabbi
Staff and volunteers present visitors with explanations about elements of the Jewish faith
By JTA
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, on June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
May 23, 2014, 9:05 pm
Russian judge says US must return Schneerson texts
Legal battle over 7 books on loan at the Library of Congress has made Moscow’s Chabad movement an unwilling participant
By JTA
August 9, 2013, 5:14 pm
Odessa to receive second Jewish museum
Chabad-affiliated facility will share history of Ukrainian city whose Jewish population was decimated during Holocaust
April 10, 2013, 2:56 pm
Moscow’s new Jewish museum wins top museum award
Designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates, it offers 3d cinemas, interactive maps and touch screens
March 28, 2013, 1:41 pm
Disputed library to move to Moscow Jewish museum
President Vladimir Putin has said collection claimed by Chabad-Lubavitch will not leave Russia
Jewish Agency chairman and former cabinet minister Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Courtesy JAFI)
November 13, 2012, 11:59 am
Sharansky rails against Peres, who thanked Russia for ‘thousand years of hospitality’
Why did world Jewry have to struggle on behalf of Soviet brethren if the country was so friendly to Jews, USSR-born ex-prisoner of Zion asks
By Raphael Ahren
Shimon Peres at his Jerusalem residence (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 6, 2012, 6:45 am
Peres heads to Russia to inaugurate Jewish museum
President to meet Putin, discuss Iran nuclear threat and regional peace
By ToI Staff
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