Limmud conference

Jewish festival returns to Azerbaijan, one sign of Baku’s growing ties with Israel

The June 11 event was the second gathering in under a year in Azerbaijan for Limmud FSU.

 Limmud FSU volunteers pause for a photo with Israel's ambassador to Azerbaijan George Deek (in center with red tie), former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubenstein (in foreground), and Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler (in dark suit).
 Limud conference in Baku in 2022.

First ever conference of Jewish learning in Azerbaijan

Some 1,000 Moscow Jews attended the first Limmud FSU face-to-face event since the start of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, Sunday, May 23, 2021.

Limmud FSU returns to frontal programming with one-day festival in Moscow

New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly at a press conference, May 24, 2012

Former NYPD commissioner warns US Jews: Protect your communities


Limmud FSU attracts hundreds of young Jews for conference in Moldova

Participants will include Mark Galesnik, the editor of the popular Israeli-Russian satirical magazine, Besder and Igor Schupak, founder and director of the Jewish Museum in Dnepopetrovsk.

MOLDOVIAN JEWS celebrate Shabbat at Limmud FSU conference last year.

Limmud FSU marks Auschwitz liberation with emotional exhibition

Yad Vashem's exhibition, "Private Tolkatchev at the Gates of Hell," was one of the main attractions at this year's Limmud FSU conference in New York.

From left: Ron Meier, executive director of the American Society for Yad Vashem; Matthew Bronfman, Chairman of Limmud  FSU; Chaim Chesler, a member of the leadership representing the Claims Conference; and Izzy Tapoochi, president of Israel Bonds

First Person: Limmud Conference - The sacred and the profane

Limmud – the annual Jewish learning event, run by volunteers – is about contrasts.

JEWISH AGENCY CHAIRMAN Natan Sharansky faces off against comedian Avi Liberman at the Limmud Conference in Coventry, England.

Sharing the good news about Israel

Overseas Jews are hungry to hear it. And if we don’t tell them, who will?

Limmud FSU Belarus conference

Sharansky to appear with Palestinian, S. African Human rights advocates at Limmud

The three will debate on the topics of peace and democracy.

Natan Sharansky

Hundreds gather at Kibbutz Ginosar for Limmud FSU Kinneret

The festival celebrated the Zionist poet Rachel Bluwstein, known as Rachel the Poetess Rachel who was born in Russia.

(L-R) Matthew Bronfman, Chaim Chesler, Supreme Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein and Avshalom Kor.

Back in St. Petersburg, former refusenik encourages aliya

Mendelevitch was imprisoned for 11 years for trying to hijack a plane to escape the Soviet Union; now a Jerusalem resident, he returns to country of origin to attend Limmud FSU.

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, Nov. 30, 2014

Limmud conference brings Jewish life back to Lviv

‘Pay attention to this community, because we have a big potential,’ says head Jewish students union.

LIMMUD FSU founder Chaim Chesler (left) sits with Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi (center) and Ukraine Ambassador Eliav Belotserkovsky at the organization’s conference in Lviv, Ukraine

A festival of Jewish learning reinvigorates Belarus

Once a city bustling with Jewish life, Vitebsk again witnessed the spirit and excitement of renewal at last month’s Limmud FSU gathering.

A MARCHING BAND opens the exhibition of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s bust in Glubokoye

Ralph Goldman – A giant among men

Jewish leader, who died in Jerusalem a few days before the Sukkot holiday at the grand old age of 100, was a legend in his own long lifetime.

Ralph Goldman