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FSB officers shoot a terrorist reportedly attempting to bomb a Jewish site in Moscow

Terrorist planning to detonate IED in Moscow synagogue shot by FSB

By MICHAEL STARR

AT MEM GLOBAL’S Russian-speaking Jewish learning retreat in Prague, last May, participants engage with the RSJ survey.

A moment in time: New insights about the Global RSJ community

By YULIA BEZRUKOVA

Masha Gessen speaks onstage at the 2022 CPJ International Press Freedom Awards at Glasshouses on November 17, 2022 in New York City.

Russia sentences Jewish writer Masha Gessen to prison in absentia for comments on Ukraine war

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

A view of Derbent synagogue following an attack by gunmen and a fire, in Derbent in the region of Dagestan, Russia June 24, 2024.

Ablaze: Arson attack damages Russian synagogue

By MICHAEL STARR

Russia's community of Mountain Jews comes together in the wake of the attempted pogrom in Dagestan.

Jewish community in Dagestan: History and recent challenges

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Kele-Numaz Synagogue in Derbent, Dagestan, Russia

More than 15 dead, 13 wounded in shooting attack on Russian synagogue, Orthodox church

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

Shabbat at the Rabbi Minich's Synagogue in Jaffa.

Isolated amid Independence Day: Russian immigrants face Israeli integration issues

By VERONICA NEIFAKH/THE MEDIA LINE

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar before the reading of the Megillah in the central synagogue in Moscow.

Russian Chief Rabbi calls to soften Purim celebration after Moscow attack

By MICHAEL STARR

Olim attend an event marking 25 years of the great aliyah from the former Soviet Union, in Jerusalem in 2015. Do we no longer have the resolve to save Jews?

Majority of Israelis feel deeper connection to Diaspora Jewry since October 7 - poll

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Yekaterinburg, Russia

Russia to launch online guide to Jewish history of Yekaterinburg

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ukrainian refugees are seen arriving in Israel as part of Operation Israeli Guarantee, on March 6, 2022.

Aliyah dips in West, surges in Russia amid Ukraine conflict

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt

Russia declares former chief rabbi of Moscow a ‘foreign agent’

RUSSIAN IMMIGRANTS attend an event in 2015 in Jerusalem marking the 25th anniversary of the great Russian aliyah from the former Soviet Union to Israel.

Does Israel really want more Russian aliyah? - opinion

Olim attend an event marking 25 years of the great aliyah from the former Soviet Union, in Jerusalem in 2015. Do we no longer have the resolve to save Jews?

What will happen to Russia’s Jews? - opinion

By COOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN

The last aliyah flight of 2021 will land in Israel on Friday.

'Israel has abandoned the Jews of Russia,' MK Oded Forer charges

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during an official inauguration of the monument honoring the heroes of the siege of Leningrad

Unstable Russia sparks concerns for Jewish organizations

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin may not be an antisemite but when his power is threatened he will adopt the policies which help him stay in power, the writer argues

Russian Jews need to flee before they are made scapegoats for Putin's war - opinion

By ALEXEI BAYER

Ukrainian Jews find refuge in Moldova

Ukraine-Russia War: Putin not antisemitic, demonizes Zelensky - Sharansky