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Former Moscow rabbi says he rebuffed proposal to convert Russians discussed in Epstein recording

The proposal sought to bring converted Russians to Israel as a demographic strategy aimed at preserving Israel's Jewish majority.

Ehud Barak, a former prime minister of Israel, announces the establishment of a new political party that he will lead, in Tel Aviv, June 26, 2019.
Interior of abandoned Dar Bishi synagogue in the Libyan capital Tripoli. Illustrative.

Russian-Israeli released from Libyan jail after breaking into Tripoli synagogue

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu lights a candle alongside the memorial wall at the National Library.

Grapevine, October 19, 2025: Remembering at the National Library

SINCE THE outbreak of the Ukraine-Russia War in 2022, some 80,000 Russians and 20,000 Ukrainians and Belarusians with Jewish ancestry have made aliyah. Here, people attend a ceremony marking the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Tel Aviv in February 2024.

Russian Jews seek a home in Israel as Ukraine war drives aliyah wave


Israeli chief rabbis: Don’t overrule Moscow’s chief rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt is currently in Israel but is overseeing his community from afar. Israel's chief rabbis wrote to Russian Jewish authorities to keep it that way.

 President of the Conference of European Rabbis Pinchas Goldschmidt talks during an interview with Reuters in Vienna, Austria, May 31, 2016.

Over 20k immigrants to Israel since Ukraine war began; almost half from Russia

The war between Russia and Ukraine is sending out refugees from both sides.

Ukrainian Jews return to Israel.

How sanctions made new Russian olim leave Israel

“Most of the people returned to Russia for some time because the decision to come to Israel was urgent and not well-prepared.”

New olim from the former Soviet Union are seen arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport.

‘Golden Voices’ proves delightful, opens Thursday

Thanks to brilliant writing and performance, the film becomes a universal story of an older couple trying to keep their love alive and fighting to make their way in a confusing new world.

 MARIYA BELKINA and Vladimir Friedman in ‘Golden Voices.’

'I was a proud Jew in Russia. When the war in Ukraine began, I knew I had to leave.'

"The decision to leave my country was excruciating," says the author, a born-and-raised Russian Jew.

 Emergency workers remove debris of a building destroyed in the course of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 10, 2022.

Bennett offers Putin to mediate end to war with Ukraine

Despite first call between leaders Israel, is ‘unlikely’ to serve as the intermediary between Russia and Ukraine.

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin meets with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in Sochi last month.

For New York’s Ukrainian Jews, a time of waiting and worry

While Ukrainian Jews in NY worry about their relatives in Ukraine, fears are also on the rise for the Jewish community in Ukraine with Russia's potential impending invasion into Ukrainian territory.

 SHIMINOV’S BROTHER Oleksey Yisroel Poterlevych in Ukraine with one of the country’s chief rabbis,Moshe Reuven Azman.

World’s first collection of Jewish NFTs launched by JCC Russia

The NFT project digitizes Judaica from the famed Moscow synagogue, such as digital replicas of its “Bima” and "Aron Kodesh."

 An image from inside the Moscow synagogue.

Former boxing champ Yuri Foreman is now the ‘Vegan Boxing Rabbi’

Former boxer Yuri Foreman is planning a boxing comeback – only this time, he's an ordained Rabbi.

yuri foreman boxer

Russian Jews have a different relationship with Israel than US Jews - opinion

American Jewish schools teach that Israel is an outpost of liberalism in the Mideast.

 Siberian Jews celebrate the opening of a new Jewish education center in Tomsk, Russia, Sept. 12, 2021.