Ukrainian Jewish Encounter proudly supports two on-going media projects – Hromadske Radio’s Zustrichi program in Ukraine and Ukrainian Jewish Heritage that airs on Canada’s Nash Holos Ukrainian Roots Radio.
Pope Francis received a delegation from the ancient community of Mountain Jews to discuss Holocaust anniversaries and the problems of Anti-Semitism today.
The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, commemorated on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honored those working today to preserve what they can of that vanished world.
The next CDs from the series ''Historical Collection of Jewish Musical Folklore 1912-1947'' Volume 7, Volume 8, Volume 9, which are records of sound phonograms from the Moses Beregovsky phonograph cylinder collection, were released.
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow celebrated its 5th birthday this week. Opened in 2012 with the initiative of FJC of Russia’s leadership, today the museum is an important part of cultural life in the Russian capital.
Over 25 families from LifeChanger FSU, a rehabilitation and social support project in Ukraine, participated last month in a summer camp program organized especially for them at FJC’s Alumim complex near Zhitomir.
FJC’s Knizhniki publishing house exhibit was one of the highlights at the International Book Fair in Jerusalem recently, attracting a wide and enthusiastic audience.
Hundreds of Petersburg residents came to the “Jewish Book Day” event organized at the city synagogue this Sunday and purchased the entire stock of the exhibited books, publishers said.