Elderly Jews who are beneficiaries of the Shaarei Tsedek Charity Center received special food packages in honor of the upcoming Purim holiday.

A new section of the Jewish cemetery was opened in the town of Malakhovka, located not far from Moscow.

A new synagogue has been opened in the “Bourgeois” Shopping Center in S. Petersburg, enabling many Jews who live nearby to come on Friday night for Shabbat services.

Last week, Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan in Russia’s Volga region, celebrated the grand opening of a kosher restaurant.

The Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted a graduation ceremony upon the completion of the first Russian training course for the personnel of ZAKA, an international Jewish organization dedicated to rescuing disaster victims and identifying corpses.

During the construction of the world biggest menorah complex the workers have found rusty remnats of small arms of pre-World War II style.

Jewish young adults participated in the seminar “Discover Yourself,” organized by the Jewish community of Chelyabinsk.

The 12th “Jewish World-View” seminar has wrapped up in Volgograd.

A series of lectures on Jewish topics are beginning in two prisons in the Moscow region

January 27 is marked in S. Petersburg due to its double significance – two important events occurred on this day