FSU camps teach U.S. kids old ways
Increasing numbers of immigrants from the former Soviet Union are eager to pass on their language and heritage to their children, and summer programs in the Old Country seem an effective way to accomplish the goal. Read more »
FSU schools facing budget axe
A feared $1 million slash in the Jewish Agency for Israel's budget for Jewish schools in the former Soviet Union would seriously impact non-Orthodox educational options, local leaders are saying. Read more »
Struggle over yeshiva in Belarus
A historic yeshiva in Belarus that was returned recently to the Jewish community could be confiscated again if local Jews can't raise $20,000 to renovate the building. Read more »
Jews remember Yeltsin’s historic role
Jewish leaders agree that the community will remember Boris Yeltsin primarily as the man who ended decades of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Russia. Read more »
A return to authoritarian Russia?
Russian authorities' manhandling of peaceful anti-government protesters in Moscow and St. Petersburg is being seen by many here as proof that the Kremlin is reverting to its authoritarian ways. Read more »
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Updated 11/06/09 @ 01:12PM EDT
- The Union for Reform Judaism passed a resolution urging equal services for Israeli Arabs.
- The International Atomic Energy Agency has evidence that Iran may have tested an advanced nuclear warhead design, according to a British newspaper.
- The United States vetoed an Israeli plan to attack a ship bearing weapons allegedly from Iran to Hezbollah, according to a report in an Arabic-language newspaper.
- The Obama administration expects to keep working with Mahmoud Abbas despite his planned resignation as Palestinian Authority president.
- U.S. Jewish groups blasted the U.N. General Assembly for its endorsement of the Goldstone report into last winter's Gaza war.
- Reform endorse qual treatment for Israeli Arabs
- Iran may have tested secret nuclear warhead design
- Report: U.S. stopped Israeli attack on weapons ship
- U.S. sees Abbas in continuing role
- Groups blast UNGA Goldstone vote
- Israel delivers swine flu vaccines to Palestinian Authority
- Abbas announces he won’t run for re-election
- IAEA head: No worries about Iran nuclear site
- Mideast peace push cited in Obama Nobel
- Obama’s Nobel, Israel’s problem?
- Jews of color come together to explore identity
- FBI: Alleged spy wannabe asked for Israeli citizenship
- Family likely murdered by professional killer
- New signs that Ethiopian aliyah will resume
- U.S. appetite for Israeli food grows
- Female Orthodox scholars helping women talk about sex




