The Limmud Jewish learning conference in Moscow attracted nearly 1,500 participants, making it the second-largest event of its kind worldwide. The three-day event, which closed Sunday at a resort just outside the Russian capital, was the largest Limmud event ever held outside Britain, Limmud International confirmed. “It’s an amazing achievement considering that nine years ago…
About 400 people attended Australia’s first Limmud conference tailored especially for Russian-speaking Jews. The events held last week in Sydney and near Melbourne were organized by the local branch of Limmud FSU, a network of groups that uses the concept of Limmud conferences to connect communities of Russian-speaking Jews on four continents. Chaim Chesler, a…
Limmud Colorado, after several years of conferences, is shutting down. The announcement appeared last week in the Boulder Jewish News. “Unfortunately, we weren’t able to inspire a large enough and stable enough core community of volunteers to plan and run our annual conference, and each year we ended up with a small, passionate group of…
(JTA) — Through the backseat window of a black KGB car, Yosef Mendelevitch could see university students his age hurrying to take their finals. It was June 15, 1970, and the 23-year-old Mendelevitch had just been arrested along with 11 accomplices for trying to hijack a plane to escape the Soviet Union. On the tarmac of…
(JTA) — Chaim Chesler doesn’t back down easily from a dispute — especially one involving a unique tale of Jewish survival in the Holocaust. But even Chesler, founder of the Limmud FSU Jewish learning conferences, was taken aback by the intense resistance he encountered earlier this month from an elderly lady in the Ukrainian city of…
The mayor of the Ukrainian city of Lviv told participants at a Jewish learning conference that France has a bigger anti-Semitism problem than his country. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, who recently emerged as one of Ukraine’s most popular politicians, made the assertion Thursday in Lviv, at the opening of the city’s first Limmud FSU Jewish learning…
For more than 1,000 young Jews assembled in Moscow at the end of April, it was just another successful event in a chain of gatherings that has become a magnet for Russian-speaking Jews around the world. But this year’s Limmud FSU meeting also marked a change: The food served was all kosher for the first…
Over 1,000 people have registered for the Moscow Limmud at a government-owned resort. Participants of the annual Jewish learning conference paid $300-$500 to attend the four-day event, which will open Friday at the Klyasma resort just outside the Russian capital, organizers said. The for-profit complex is owned by the Department for Presidential Affairs of the…
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