In Brest, Belarus, a commemorative ceremony took place at the monument to prisoners of the Jewish ghetto.

Thanks to the Fellowship Foundation, another humanitarian aid campaign took place recently, this time in the Siberian city of Barnaul.

In the city of Ulyanovsk, Russia, reconstruction of the Jewish Community Center is entering its final phase.

Russia's first kosher “take-out” restaurant and store has opened in the Shaarei Tsedek Charity Center in Moscow.

On April 12 the Jewish community of Almaty was visited by the Joint Field Operations Division Director in the CIS Shauli Driter, Deputy Director Field Operations Itzchak Averbuch, and Natzig Boris Boguslavsky.

The Jewish community of Krivoy Rog held a gathering to commemorate the Holocaust and the heroism of European Jewry. The ceremony took place near a monument erected at the site of the mass executions of Jews of Krivoy Rog in the autumn of 1941.

A New Orleans synagogue destroyed by Hurricane Katrina will break ground on a new building.

In the face of intense pressure, South African judge Richard Goldstone has agreed not to attend his grandson’s bar mitzvah.

This month, in Donetsk and other cities and towns in the surrounding region, a humanitarian aid campaign to benefit Jewish children was launched.

The Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk hosted a delegation from its sister organization, the Jewish community of Greater Boston (Massachusetts, USA).