Posts Tagged: Limmud FSU
‘Bull****’ to Respond to Campus Antisemites With Facts-Based Argument, Says Leading Jewish Educator
Responding to campus antisemites with fact-based arguments is a "bulls***" approach, according to a leading Jewish educator, the UK's Jewish News reported on Friday. "[T]he starting point...
Traveling Photo Exhibit Honoring the Late Elie Wiesel Opens in Paris, Where Holocaust Survivor Nobel Laureate Began His Journalism Career
A traveling photo exhibit launched this weekend in Paris honors the life and legacy of world-renowned Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, its...
Hundreds Gather in Russia for Largest-Ever Limmud FSU Jewish Education Confab
JNS.org -- More than 650 people recently gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the largest-ever conference in that city hosted by Limmud FSU, a decade-old international Jewish...
Author Amoz Oz’s Daughter Retraces Family Roots at Limmud FSU Ukraine
JNS.0rg - The daughter of Israeli novelist Amoz Oz has retraced her father's life as described in his memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness,...
Expanding Conferences Help FSU Jews Gain Mainstream Communal Acceptance
JNS.org - An American Jewish astronaut who learned to speak Russian while training with cosmonauts walks into a lecture hall filled with Russian-American Jews....
Christian-Jewish Group Teams With Limmud FSU to Connect Global Russian Jewry
JNS.org - The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) and Limmud FSU (former Soviet Union) have formed a new partnership to expand efforts...
Ariel Sharon to be Commemorated by Limmud FSU in Belarus
JNS.org -The upcoming Limmud FSU conference in Belarus, to take place this summer, will honor the recently deceased former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon....
Ceremony Marks Begin’s 100th Birthday in Hometown
The hometown in which Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born and raised in, Brest in Belarus, was host to a special ceremony marking...
For U.S. Russian Jewry, An Exercise in Identity
A gap remains between young Russian Jews and the larger American Jewish community, even as organizations like Limmud FSU and others work to build bridges...