Posts Tagged: Russian American Jews
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....
Mazal Tov to Jan Koum of WhatsApp
The latest Russian American Jewish success story is truly a special one. Jan Boris Koum just so"Ž"Ž"Žld his company, WhatsApp, to Facebook for $19 billion dollars. In...
“ŽAmerican Jewish Establishment Must Do More to Embrace Russian Jews
I spent the weekend at a Russian-Jewish Shabbaton on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and was reminded of just how different Russian-American Jews are...
The Hidden 36 – Zev Wolfson’s Powerful Lessons in Jewish Leadership
Do you believe in the Kabalistic Jewish tradition of the 36 hidden Tzadikim - saintly Jews who sustain the Jewish people with their...
Russian American Jews: A Bright Spot for the Jewish People
When it comes to Jewish population studies, I am conditioned to expect reports of gloom and doom. Assimilation and intermarriage among non-orthodox Jews has been...
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...
