On September 19, near the Beit Shvidler Educational Center in Moscow’s Marina Roscha neighborhood, the opening ceremony of the new dormitory for students of the Mesivta Boys’ School took place.

An historic event occurred in the city of Sumy, located in north-eastern Ukraine.

In late August, the Jewish community of Perm hosted a meeting for Jewish youth from nine different regions of Russia, including cities and towns in the Ural, the Volga region, Siberia and the North Caucasus.

The Gan Israel summer camp for boys, run by the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish community, has concluded.

A week-long youth seminar just ended in Kazan. Approximately 100 Jewish boys and girls from the Volga region are participated in the seminar.

The Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a delegation from the Jewish Federations of North America - the largest Jewish charitable organization in the world, uniting 157 Jewish federations in the United States and Canada.

An important event took place Jewish inmates at Prison number 8, located near Ulan Ude, the capital of Buryatia.

Rabbi Avraham Moshe (Aba) Dunner, executive director of the Conference of European Rabbis, died at his London home on Sunday.

For the past ten years, the Jewish community of Omsk has been running Gan Israel summer camp for children from Omsk and other cities of Western Siberia.

The Lugansk Gan Israel summer camp for boys, organized by the Jewish community of Lugansk, has wound up the 2011 season.