Ulyanovsk celebrated the opening of its first Jewish kindergarten.

Jay Feinberg, founder of the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation, has been tapped as the Jewish Community Hero.

Last week, at the general assembly of members of the Jewish Cultural Society of Daugavpils, the chairman of the society, Bluma Rein resigned.

In the historic Jewish quarter of Baku, foundation stone of the new Synagogue for “Mountain Jews” in Azerbaijan was laid.

The Jewish Federations of North America has announced the five finalists for its 2010 Jewish Community Heroes award.

The Ohr Avner Chabad Day School of Zhitomir celebrated the opening of its new synagogue.

A billionaire with Israeli and Ukrainian citizenship was named the new president of the European Council of Jewish Communities.

The Jewish community in the Northwest district of Moscow now has its own Jewish community center.

Last week in Minsk, the city hosted a conference of rabbis of Belarus. The conference included Rabbi David Mondshine, the Director of the Ohr Avner Foundation, who travelled from Moscow especially for the gathering.

Jewish leaders from Barnaul, the capital of the Altai Krai, met with the city’s acting mayor, Igor Savintsev. The community was represented by Chief Rabbi of the Altai Krai Yisroel Noach Kamenetsky and chairman of the Jewish community of Barnaul, Mr. Vitaly Shatkov.