St. Petersburg
Temple Beth-El — St. Petersburg, FL
Beth-El serves over 300 families, 20% of whom are interfaith.
Israeli Dad-To-Be Beaten To Death In St. Petersburg
He is survived by his pregnant wife.
Russia's Largest Synagogue Gets $300K Facelift
Russia’s largest synagogue announced plans for a $300,000 facelift.
Big City Dreams, Small Town Scandals
Crossposted from Haaretz
Regal Theater in St. Petersburg
Crossposted from Haaretz
From Russia, With No Love
Well, there go my plans of drinking vodka in St. Petersburg this month with Natan Sharansky and the rest of the Jewish Agency’s Board of Governors…The quasi-governmental body in charge of Jewish immigration to Israel announced yesterday that its plans to hold one of its board meetings in the canal-lined city (Peter the Great’s window to the West) has been canceled only three-weeks before it was to take place. The problem, according to Jewish Agency officials anonymously quoted in various news sources, is that the Russians suddenly balked at the idea of an international Jewish meeting. They said the Agency only has legal status as a local NGO.
Animating Brodsky In a Room and a Half of His Own
When the Russian-born American poet Joseph Brodsky won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1987, he was asked whether he thought of himself as an American or a Russian writer. “I am Jewish — a Russian poet and an English essayist,” he replied. Born into a Jewish family in Leningrad in 1940, he was exiled in 1972 on charges of “parasitism” and moved to the United States, where he became a citizen in 1977.