The governor of Russia's Far East Jewish Autonomous Region says the area is "ready" to house Jews from Europe who are facing anti-Semitism. Aleksandr Levintal said his region "will welcome Jews ...

In turn, the co-chairman of the Union of Writers of Russia, Vladimir Krupin, stated that: “The Jews received Birobidzhan (the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia, located on the Trans-Siberian ...

In Russia’s little-known region of Birobidzhan last week, the local newspaper Nabat posted an online banner that read, "No to the aggression of the Israeli military against the Gaza Strip!

The first Jewish children born in this emerging Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR ... A SUPPORTER of the Russian Communist Party stands next to a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, during ...

This is how the Jewish Autonomous Region was formed. It was planned that 100,000 Jews would move there, but, in the end, only 19,000 arrived. A monument to the first immigrants is installed on the ...

Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar said a 110-year-old Derbent synagogue, which was a center for Jewish life in the region, was destroyed in a fire during the attacks. Among those slain was the Rev ...

When I read about the arrest of American Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, in Russia on March 29, my mind went back to the 1980s. In July 1985, I went to visit Abe Stolar. Stolar ...

For Ukrainian Orthodox Jews Asher and David Cherkaskyi, a father and son both fighting on the front lines in the eastern Donbas region, beating Russia has become especially important to them ...

According to a despatch from Poland, the Soviet Republics, embodied in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, demanded a conference to discuss their autonomy ... regime. Russia is now governed ...

A Russian court has sentenced the decorated Russian-Jewish writer Masha Gessen to eight years in prison in absentia over comments they made about the country’s conduct in the Ukraine war in 2022. The ...

Last week came news that Russian President Vladimir Putin was threatening to shut down the offices of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia. For those unfamiliar with it, the agency is a ...