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Amidst a fierce snowstorm, members of the Jewish community in Irkutsk gathered for a prayer and memorial service in the Pivovarikha forest outside the city. The participants recited chapters of Tehillim and said Kaddish with a full minyan at the graves of the city’s Jews, including the shamash of the synagogue, who was executed in 5698 (1938). The Chief Rabbi of Irkutsk, Rabbi Aharon HaKohen Wagner, sent words of chizuk and inspiration to the participants, emphasizing the duty to memorialize the martyrs by making Jewish life flourish in the city • Read More, Photos
An emotional moment took place at the Jewish University in Moscow when Volodya, a first-year student from the city of Miass, entered the Bris of Avraham Avinu after discovering that he descends from a family of Chabad Chassidim from Rechitsa, in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire • Read More, Photos
A group of supporters of Russian Jewry, together with Russia’s Chief Rabbi and the Rebbe’s Shliach, Rabbi Berel Lazar, met with Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem for a Hascholas Ksivas Sefer Torah in merit of Russian-speaking Jews around the world • Read More, Photos
After more than a decade of planning, the Jewish community of Ulyanovsk, Russia, received municipal approval to move forward with the construction of a major new Jewish community center. The five-story complex, spanning approximately 47,360 square feet, will house a Shul, Mikvah, educational institutions, humanitarian services, and a range of facilities serving thousands of Jews throughout the region • Read More, Photos
Rabbi Berel Lazar visited Bauman Moscow State Technical University, where researchers presented advanced technology for growing insect-free produce. Discussions are underway to explore a potential collaboration with Russia’s Kashrus system, with implications for kosher food production worldwide • Full Story, Photos
Nearly a century after the Frierdiker Rebbe, established Tiferes Bachurim to provide Torah study opportunities for young men unable to attend yeshiva full-time, the initiative is being revived in Moscow with the launch of Tiferes Hatmimim • Read More, Photos
Baby boy to Zalman and Brocho Friedman – Crown Heights
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