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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 369

Limmud FSU

In this February 24, 2014, photo, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum speaks during a conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
November 7, 2020, 7:55 am
Israel funds Jewish community-focused high-tech projects in former Soviet Union
A new program co-sponsored by the Israeli government and Limmud FSU is fostering innovation that will help grow local Jewish life and build bridges with the Jewish state
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Illustrative: Rabbi Shimshon Izakson, second from left, praying with congregants at the Wooden Synagogue in Chisinau, Moldova on August 26, 2019. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
August 26, 2019, 11:44 pm
Moldova’s dwindling Jewish community reopens synagogue seized by Soviets
Hundreds attend ceremony at Wooden Synagogue in Chisinau, bringing number of Jewish houses of worship in country to 4
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Nobuki Sugihara, second from right, with Chaim Chesler, in blue shirt, and guests of Limmud FSU Minsk at the village of Mir, Belarus, during an unveiling of a plaque for Chiune Sugihara, May 2, 2019. (Boris Brumin/via JTA)
May 23, 2019, 6:08 pm
Holocaust hero Chiune Sugihara’s son sets record straight on his father’s story
Nobuki Sugihara says he’s not out to glorify his father — and proves it by debunking myths and showing that human kindness, not ideology, prompted him to save thousands of lives
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Chaim Chesler, left, and Nobuki Sugihara during a Holocaust commemoration event at Mir, Belarus, May 2, 2019. (Limmud FSU/Boris Brumin)
May 3, 2019, 8:58 pm
A Holocaust rescue is remembered in Belarus with the son of Chiune Sugihara
Japan’s consul in Lithuania gave life-saving transit visas to 700 Mir Yeshiva students and more than 2,000 additional Jews against the orders of his superiors
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Evgeny Velikhov speaks at Limmud FSU Moscow on April 12, 2019. (Courtesy Limmud FSU)
April 19, 2019, 9:31 pm
The non-Jewish physicist who lobbied Gorbachev to open the first Soviet yeshiva
At Moscow conference, Evgeny Velikhov recounts his role in helping an Israeli rabbi open the country’s only official Jewish seminary in 1989
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)
October 5, 2018, 9:02 pm
In rare criticism, Russian chief rabbi blasts supply of S-300 missiles to Syria
Berel Lazar calls Russia’s decision to give advanced air defense system to Assad regime a ‘mistake,’ says he’s talked to Putin about it
By JTA
Elie Wiesel's childhood home in Sighet, Romania was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti on August 3, 2018. (Screenshot via Realitatea.net)
August 17, 2018, 4:53 pm
Romanian police nab suspect in anti-Semitic vandalism of Elie Wiesel’s home
Man allegedly spray-painted late Nobel laureate’s childhood home with the words ‘public toilet’ and ‘Nazi Jew lying in hell with Hitler’
By JTA
The hadvalah ceremony at Limmud FSU in Oakland, California. (Ekaterina Efimova)
December 30, 2017, 11:16 am
Limmud FSU slams Israeli government for neglecting Russian-speaking Jews
Blaming ‘broken promises’ from unmotivated politicians, nonprofit dramatically scales back its global conferences
By Julie Masis
Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp. (CC-SA/Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)
November 24, 2017, 4:48 am
What did the billionaire WhatsApp founder have to say at Limmud FSU?
Jan Koum, who in 2014 sold the company for $19 billion, picked up the mic — and immediately went off the record at a weekend event near Silicon Valley
By Julie Masis
Illustrative: Participants at the Limmud FSU conference in Odessa, Ukraine lean against a poster hailing singer Bob Dylan as a pride of the city on Saturday October 21, 2017 (Gavin Rabinowitz/ Times of Israel)
November 13, 2017, 1:46 pm
Poetry and revolution: Searching for Bob Dylan in Ukraine
The city of Odessa and its Jewish community are bringing it all back home to honor the legendary folk singer as one of their own — with mixed results
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Participants in the Limmud FSU Jewish learning conference in Belarus posing for a group picture in front of the Vitebsk National Museum of Fine Arts, September 9, 2014. (Yossi Aloni/via JTA)
September 22, 2017, 3:48 pm
In Belarus, some Jews don’t mind a dictator
The Jewish community can claim prosperity and lack of anti-Semitism unmatched in neighboring countries — as long as they keep their heads down
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Children wearing traditional outfits wait before a march marking one year since the death of Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in Sighetu Marmatiei, northern Romania, Sunday, September 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
September 11, 2017, 1:11 pm
Protesting anti-Semitism, hundreds retrace Elie Wiesel’s path to deportation
A year after the death of the Holocaust-surviving author and activist, international dignitaries join residents of his hometown in Romania to celebrate his legacy
By Yaakov Schwartz
Guests listen to a speaker at Limmud FSU in Westchester, New York. The conference ran from May 14-16, 2017. (Limmud FSU)
May 17, 2017, 1:46 am
In New York, Russian-speaking Jews say ‘da’ to Limmud FSU
Feeling marginalized from ‘mainstream’ American Jewry, people from the former Soviet Union gather for a conference that speaks to them
By Julie Masis
Oleg Kuvaev satirizes Russian society with his cartoon, 'Masyanya.' (Courtesy)
May 12, 2017, 10:56 am
In Tel Aviv, a Russian cartoonist draws upon the old country for inspiration
In the classic tradition, Oleg Kuvaev satirizes society back home — and he’ll speak about it this week at Limmud FSU in New York
By Julie Masis
Israel ambassador to Russia Gary Koren (YouTube screenshot)
February 15, 2017, 6:29 pm
In rare criticism, Israeli envoy raps Russia for blocking anti-Semitism definition
Gary Koren singles out Moscow as sole country not to adopt Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe statement
By JTA
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