Berel Lazar

TOMSK, Russia – It’s an unusually warm midwinter’s night in central Siberia, only minus 8º Celsius, or so I’m told as I shiver in my thermal…

JOINING THE concerted effort to bring home kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit, Kanyonei Yisrael (Israel Malls) will on Friday release 18,000 yellow…

FEW PEOPLE would argue with the contention that of all the heads of foreign missions here, Russian Ambassador Petr Stegny and his wife Margarita have…

A kosher restaurant featuring Bukharian Jewish food has opened in theheart of Moscow. Seven-Forty is owned by Ben Binyaminov, the…

Russia's chief rabbi said Thursday that he planned to travel to western Ukraine to show support for a local Jewish community where the city mayor…

Jewish leaders in Ukraine and Russia on Thursday condemned the mayor of a Ukrainian city who called a presidential hopeful "an impudent little Jew,"…

Newly-elected Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky will travel to Moscow on Monday to mark the opening of the new school year for Jewish learning…

Chabad is turning to small donors to stave off a financial crisis in its Russian operations, as major donors like diamond and real estate mogul Lev…

A Russian court on Wednesday upheld the deportation of Chabad's Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein, Rabbi of the Primorye region in Russia's far…

Religious leaders of the world have been invited to meet in Krakow and visit Auschwitz next year, on the 70th anniversary of outbreak of World War…

A Hevra Kasdisha representative left Moscow with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar on Sunday to the site of a plane crash which left 88 people dead,…

A Hevra Kasdisha representative left Moscow with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berl Lazar on Sunday to the site of a plane crash which left 88 people dead,…

Empathy... Sir, - Re "Iran petitions UN over Eitan's 'threat'" (September 11): I am not Jewish, but I support the Jewish people and their cause to…

The executive director of the Chabad-led Federation of Jewish Communities of the former Soviet Union has left his post to create an independent…

An Israeli citizen was murdered Sunday night in Moscow. According to police assessments, the woman was killed by a drug addict. She was found with…

Russia's chief rabbi and the chairman of the country's main Islamic council are patching up a relationship severed two weeks ago after an Islamic…

For the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, a chief rabbinical chaplain is servicing the spiritual and religious needs of Jewish soldiers…

By uttering a single sentence on national television Monday endorsing Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev for Russia's next president, President…

A chief rabbi of Russia came out in support of Vladimir Putin as prime minister. Rabbi Berel Lazar of the Chabad-led Federation of Jewish…

Limmud FSU 2007, held outside Moscow last weekend, was a quintessentially Russian event. It came complete with quarreling rabbis, a "resort" that…