On Sunday, November 13, the Great Choral Synagogue in S. Petersburg was filled to capacity.

At the AFIMOLL shopping center in Moscow, which recently opened in the city’s new Moscow-City business district, there is also a newly-opened kosher fast food restaurant known as King Salomon.

World-renowned musicians Pavel Kogan and Daniel Milkis (the son and grandson of the great violinist Leonid Kogan, a native of Ekaterinoslav-Dnepropetrovsk) visited Dnepropetrovsk’s Golden Rose Synagogue following their triumphant concert at the city’s Gorky Theatre.

Jews of S. Petersburg celebrated the opening of a new Jewish Community Center in the Primorskiy district of the city this past Shabbat.

On November 1, Moscow witnessed the opening of a new kosher cafe.

For the first time ever, the community of Mountain Jews of Baku celebrated the holiday of Simchat Torah in their new synagogue.

The Jewish community of Tula celebrated the opening of a new Jewish Community Center.

On September 20, a ceremony was held to introduce a new Torah scroll to the synagogue in Makeyevka, located in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The fact that this event occurred on the eve of Rosh Hashanah makes it even more memorable.

On September 25, for the first time in 70 years, a synagogue was opened in Chernovtsy.

The Levi Yitzchak Schneerson Day School in Dnepropetrovsk, which is part of the Ohr Avner Chabad educational network, hosted a visit by the heads of the Israeli “Hefzibah” and “Tel Am” educational programs in the CIS and Baltic countries.