| Bar Mitzvah Gallery
HaTomim Reuvein Kaminietzky, Dneper |  | | Mazel Tov HaTomim HaShliach Reuvein! | Photograph: Shturem | Shluchim Ayn Mishpocho: Head Shluchim to Dnepropetrovsk, Rabbi & Mrs. Shmuel Kanimietzky, celebrated the Bar Mitzvah of their son HaTomim Reuvein, with fellow Shluchim, family members and the local Jewish community ■ more  | | | |
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| Honoring FSU Jewish Heros
Victory Day: Commemorating 68 Years |  | | Moscow | Photograph: FJC | | The 9th of May, marking this year 68 years since the historic victory over the Nazis by the joint forces that ended the Second World War, was widely celebrated last week in hundreds of Jewish communities in the FSU, whose members include many war veterans ■ more | | | |
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| Reconnecting
100 Jewish Students on Historic Mission |  | | Photograph: FJC | | On the eve of the International victory day May 9, a group of 100 University students from across Russia took part in a historic mission, visiting Jewish sites all throughout Eastern Europe. The trips objective was to reconnect Jewish Russian youth to their heritage ■ more | | | |
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| Chassidishe Nachas
Hanochas Tefillin: HaTomim MM Meyers |  | HaShliach HaTomim Menachem Mendel Meyers puts on Tefillin for the first time. Menachem Mendel is the son of Shluchim Rabbi & Mrs. Goel Meyers ■ more | | | |
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| Lag B'Omer 5773
Achdus in The Rebbe's City of Birth |  | | Lag B'Omer was a very exciting day in Nikolayev, Ukraine, the birthplace of the Rebbe. A beautiful parade with floats of Har Sinai and the mivtzoim displayed Jewish unity and pride. Hundreds of Jewish children marched in perfect order, holding signs depicted the 12 Pesukim and 10 mivtzoim ■ more | | | |
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| Chabad of Tomsk, Russia
350 Welcome Torah, Break Ground |  | | Photograph: FJC | | More than 350 members of the Jewish community of Tomsk, Russia, headed by Shluchim Rabbi & Mrs. Levi Kaminetzky,celebrated last week a series of events that included a visit from the Chief Rabbi, a historic meeting with the Governor, a Hachnosas Sefer Torah, and the ground breaking for a new Jewish educational campus ■ more | | | |
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| Odessa, Ukraine:
Or Avner 'Darkeinu' Teachers Convene |  | | Photograph: FJC | | More than forty Jewish heritage teachers from Ukraine and leading school directors from across the FSU, came together last week in Odessa to discuss new tactics and opportunities for the implementation of Jewish studies in the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ school network ■ more | | | |
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| Shlichus Diary
Haditch: A Karkafta, a Bris and Lots of Snow |  | | The Torah refers to Passover as Chag HaAviv—the spring festival. In many places around the world, spring is beginning to make its appearance. Not in Ukraine. Here, winter is still in full force, spring a distant dream. We landed in Sumy on the Thursday before Pesach, and were greeted by a massive snowstorm, the largest in fifty years ■ more | | 1 comments | |
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| Former Soviet Union:
Hundreds of Thousands Celebrate Freedom |  | | Photograph: FJC | | Hundreds of thousands of Jews, from more than 500 communities throughout the vast lands of the Former Soviet Union, proudly celebrated the festival of freedom Pesach in a wide series of events and traditional Seder nights organized by the FJC ■ more | | | |
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| Pesach 5773
Moscow: 1,500 Participate in Seder |  | | Seder in Moscow | The heavy snow that piled up and the freezing cold did not deter 1,500 Yidden from participating in the public sedorin in Moscow, headed by Head Shliach Rabbi Berel Lazar, at Marina Roscha ■ more | | | |
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| Pesach 5773
Vinnitza: Hundreds Join Shliach for Sedorim |  | Hundreds of Yidden celebrated the Sedorim in Vinnitza, Western Ukraine, with Rabbi Shaul HaLevi and Mrs. Horowitz, the Rebbe's Shluchim to Vinnitza ■ more | | | |
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| Fire & Ice
Erev Pesach in Zhitomir, Ukraine |  | Snow and fire co-existed on Erev Pesach, as Shliach Rabbi Menachem Mendel Dworkin burned his chometz in Zhitomir, Ukraine ■ more | | | |
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| Today, Moscow
Chometz Sold and Burned |  | The chometz of the Jewish community in Russia, CIS, was duly sold, and burned by Head Shliach and Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar ■ more | | | |
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| Tomsk, Russia
Youth Celebrate Bar -Bas Mitzvah |  | | Photograph: FJC | | After months of exciting preparation, a group of three boys and two girls from the Jewish community in Tomsk, Russia gathered together to celebrate their great day. During the event following, special speeches were delivered by each child ■ more | | | |
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| It's Never Too Late
Hashgocho Protis: Bar Mitzvah at 90 |  | | 90 Year Old Bar Mitzvah | Photograph: Shturem | The weather in Proskorov, Ukraine (aka Chmielnitzki) was freezing. The regular daily minyan was lacking one single Yid. The davening had begun and the nine Yidden were in the middle of reciting the Sh'ma, when an elderly Yid entered ■ more | | 1 comments | |
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