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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Russian Jews

Illustrative A man walks in the damaged Kele-Numaz synagogue in Derbent, Russia, on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. (AP Photo)
July 20, 2024, 8:43 pm
Jewish graves in Dagestan destroyed; authorities say it was an accident
Makhachkala official says tombstones damaged after driver lost control, motorist reportedly pledges to fix damage
By ToI Staff
In this photo taken from video released by the head of Dagestan Republic of Russia on June 24, 2024, Dagestan Gov. Sergei Melikov, center, visits the damaged Kele-Numaz synagogue in Derbent, Russia. (The Telegram Channel of the head of Dagestan Republic of Russia via AP)
June 29, 2024, 11:15 am
Dagestani Jews determined to rebuild after deadly terror attacks in southern Russia
After destruction of 110-year-old Derbent synagogue, a center for Jewish life in the region, rabbi says local community is ‘not going to hide behind high walls and be intimidated’
By DEEPA BHARATH
Russian FSB forces stand over Islamic State terrorists killed in a firefight, in Kaluga, Russia, March 7, 2024. (X video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 7, 2024, 4:21 pm
Russia says it thwarted Islamic State plot to attack Moscow synagogue
State media says suspects resisted arrest, were ‘neutralized’ by return fire; authorities seize weapons, improvised explosive during raid
By AFP and ToI Staff
The Star of David sits atop the Choral Synagogue in Moscow on July 28, 2022. (Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP)
October 31, 2023, 12:19 am
Moscow Jews say they’re unsurprised by antisemitic riot at Dagestan airport
Kippa-clad teacher near synagogue in Russian capital calls Sunday rampage ‘frightening’; teacher at Jewish school says mob was made up of ‘people who don’t know or understand much’
By AFP and ToI Staff
File: Former Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh attends a panel discussion as part of the Artificial Intelligence Journey (AIJ) forum, in Moscow on November 9, 2019. (Sergei Guneyev/Sputnik/AFP)
August 10, 2023, 6:11 pm
Israel-based founder of Russian tech giant Yandex slams ‘barbaric war’ in Ukraine
Although entrepreneur Arkady Volozh moved to Israel in 2014, he says he must accept ‘share of responsibility for Russia’s actions’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Russian speakers perform havdala, a ceremony that marks the end of Shabbat, in Israel. (Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli)
May 25, 2023, 3:01 pm
Russian speakers relish a user-friendly Shavuot, and its pro-conversion message
An organization that helps build communities of newcomers from former Soviet countries has adapted the Jewish holiday’s all-night study tradition
By Canaan Lidor
Theater director Zhenya Berkovich sits in a cage in a courtroom prior to a hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia, Friday, May 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
May 7, 2023, 1:43 pm
Russian director, writer held on terror charges for play on women lured to Syria
Zhenya Berkovich, who is Jewish, and Svetlana Petriychuk accused over prize-winning work depicting how authorities treat those convinced by radical Islamists to travel to warzone
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Sally Murphy and James Vincent Meredith in 'Describe the Night,' a play about Isaac Babel at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. (Michael Brosilow via JTA)
April 8, 2023, 12:06 pm
The legacy of Isaac Babel, Russia’s Jewish Hemingway, is dissected in a new play
Running at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater through April 9, ‘Describe the Night’ looks at the writer who popularized stories about Russia’s underworld before being executed in 1940
By Leigh Giangreco
Russian Jews walk into a kosher foods market in Moscow, Russia, on December 1, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
January 11, 2023, 6:09 am
Russian Jewish population down sharply since 2010, pre-Ukraine war census indicates
2021 survey shows half as many people now identify as Jews, from 160,000 in 2010 to 83,000; estimates do not account for mass exodus of Jews since outbreak of conflict
By JTA and ToI Staff
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, chief of the Conference of European Rabbis, at a news conference in Berlin, Germany, July 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer, file)
January 1, 2023, 12:53 pm
Exiled Moscow chief rabbi: Jews should leave Russia before they are scapegoated
Amid rising antisemitism, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt warns that historical precedent indicates Jewish community will be blamed for country’s problems
By Ash Obel
MK Moshe Gafni, right, speaks at a meeting of the United Torah Judaism faction at the Knesset on December 5, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 13, 2022, 1:43 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 13: IDF examines Jenin death; Haredim push religion in the state
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian talks about IDF shooting and Gaza catfishing as religion reporter Judah Ari Gross discusses United Torah Judaism’s plans
By ToI Staff
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev speaks at a trilateral summit with Israel and the United States at the Orient Hotel in Jerusalem on June 25, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton\Flash90)
October 28, 2022, 5:13 pm
Top Russian security official apologizes after deputy calls Chabad a cult
Spokesman for Russian Jewish community says he appreciates the retraction, notes historical rarity of a Russian general apologizing for antisemitism
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt delivers a speech in Paris, France on Oct. 10, 2018. (Conference of European Rabbis via JTA)
October 27, 2022, 2:59 pm
Ex-Moscow chief rabbi calls on Russia Jews to flee after top official attacks Chabad
Community finds itself in the crosshairs after Russian national security official calls Hasidic sect, the largest Jewish movement in the former Soviet Union, a supremacist cult
By Judah Ari Gross
File: Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) speaks with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar (left), during a ceremony unveiling the memorial to members of the Jewish resistance in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, on June 4, 2019. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool/AFP)
October 26, 2022, 2:40 pm
Russian chief rabbi protests as top official describes Chabad as a supremacist cult
In an article calling for the ‘desatanization’ of Ukraine, Russia’s assistant national security adviser includes Chabad-Lubavitch in his list of ‘neo-pagan cults’
By Judah Ari Gross
Alex Zeldin and Tamar Caplan are lifted on chairs during their wedding reception, August 21, 2022. (JC Lemon Photography/ via JTA)
October 17, 2022, 8:50 am
When the Torah cycle ended, their Russian-American romance began
After reconnecting at a Simchat Torah event, Tamar Caplan and Alex Zeldin find chemistry — and matching Jewish ideals — and level up from friendship to lifelong love
By Alix Wall
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