Birobidzhan

WATCH: A festival of lights in a small corner of the world

Over the next 8 days, we will stream live from remote Jewish communities worldwide to show that although small in numbers, our love of tradition is strong and our light will never be extinguished.

|ByJPOST.COM STAFF
A large menorah in the central square of Birodjan, Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia
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THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF BRITISH JEWS

|ByROBERT BRYNIN
Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev in Birobidzhan.

Moscow luring Russian ex-pats to former Jewish autonomous region

World Forum of Russian-speaking Jewry dismisses plan to encourage settlement of Russian expatriates in Birobidzhan.

|BySAM SOKOL
Medvedev, Lazar, Boroda in library of Freud Jewish Community

A Bisl Yiddish: A Yiddish home in Siberia?

Yiddish is now inextricably linked to history of Birobidzhan, remains important part of cultural landscape.

|ByCHAVI MOSKOWITZ