Today’s Jewish community of Armenia, though, has its roots in the 19th century, when the Russian Empire conquered the South Caucasus. Armenian cities attracted Jews from all corners of the empire.

According to official figures issued here, the Jewish population in White Russia forms 13% of the whole, in the province of Homel it is 7.7%, in the province of Witebsk 8%, in the Ukraine 7%, and ...

Carrots: The star of the dish, providing natural sweetness and a vibrant orange color. Prunes: Add depth and a rich, jammy sweetness. Dried apricots: Contribute tartness and a chewy texture.

Gunmen reportedly engaged in a shootout with police in Russia's Dagestan province. (East2West) They come, however, amid concern about the rise of Islamic militants, specifically the ISIS-K group ...

The Kishinev pogrom in southwestern Russia, in what is now Moldova, began on Easter Sunday in 1903. The city of Kishinev was home to some 130,000 people, nearly 40 percent of them Jewish.

A Jewish school in the Ukrainian capital suffered “significant structural damage” after being hit by a Russian drone, according to the Kyiv Jewish community operating the center.

An angry crowd in Russia’s mostly Muslim region of Dagestan stormed an airport where a flight from Israel arrived on Sunday, forcing authorities to close the facility and divert flights.

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 ...

According to the Russian Jewish Congress, there are nearly 180,000 Jews in Russia, 70 percent of them living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, many of them well-educated and working in specialist ...

New Yorkers protest Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 outside the Russian Consulate in NYC. The Russian Consulate building on New York City’s Upper East Side was slathered in red ...

In an unprecedented move, the Russian government has told the local representatives of the Jewish Agency for Israel to end their activities and leave the country, according to reports in Russian media ...

Former Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt. (Israel Hayom via JNS) On March 7, 2022, about a week and a half after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt—who was ...