Birobidzhan

When Chaim Chesler left his job as treasurer of the Jewish Agency five years ago following a power-struggle in which he was on the losing side, it…

A Limmud conference scheduled for November 2-5 in Truskavetz, Ukraine has been postponed due to swine flu. Since the country's health ministry…

A sign in Yiddish at the entrance to the Russian city of Birobidjan, a main street named after Sholem Aleichem, a statue of the Fiddler on the Roof…

I didn't know much about Limmud FSU. About Matthew Bronfman I knew a bit more. I knew he was involved with Israeli banks. Banks annoy me. And I…

On September 15, 1825, Buffalo, New York was the site of a grand ceremony that might have changed the course of Jewish history. On that day in St.…

Estimates place the level of intermarriage among the Jews of the former Soviet Union as high as 90 percent. Add to that an aging population and 16…

Many an outsider has thought that the solution to the perceived Jewish problem was relocation, and many a place has been proposed. Hitler suggested…

In 1934, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin announced the creation of the USSR's Jewish Autonomous Region in a small province 5,000 miles east of Moscow,…

"The displays of Anti-Semitism in Russia are linked to the rise of extremism and xenophobia in the country. The government should do more to crack…