On April 19-21, the Klyazma resort, located near Moscow, hosted the first session of the year for of the Limmud educational program, implemented with the organizational and financial support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. Over a thousand young Jews have already participated in the program this year.

Among those who had presentations at the Limmud session were famous politicians, journalists, scholars, community activists, including the Chairman of the Glasnost Foundation Alexei Simonov, writers Lev Rubinstein and Victor Shenderovich, TV anchor Lev Novozhenov, journalist, song writer, and singer Natella Boltyanskaya, head of Commerstant-TV Dmitriy Kudryavcev, and blogger Anton Nosik.

One of the founders of Limmud, EAJC Secretary General Michael Chlenov made a report titled “Jews and the Authorities: Towards the Formation of a New National Platform.”

A round table titled “The Current State of Russian-Israeli Relations” was organized as part of the Limmud session. The round table was visited by Israeli Minister of Absorption Sofa Landver, Knesset deputies Alex Miller and Carmel Shama Hakoen, as well as the Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Russian Federation Dorit Golender.

That same day, at the invitation of the EAJC Secretary General, Sofa Landver and Dorit Gollender visit a training seminar organized by the Federal Jewish National Cultural Autonomy for regional Jewish and non-Jewish autonomies. The participants of the seminar discussed legal questions, learned how to raise funds, exchanged experience. Workers of Korean, Uzbek, German, Azerbaijan, and Northern indigenous peoples' autonomies and national organizations took part in the seminar.

Chlenov, Landver, and Golander spoke about the experience of repatriating to Israel and the necessity of interaction between minorities in Russia and, though from a somewhat differing perspective, in Israel. Questions of interaction between the EAJC and the Jewish state, the modern state of Aliyah from countries that the Congress works in were discussed in a meeting between Michael Chlenov and FJNCA Director General Evgeniya Mikhaleva.