The Michurinsky congregation is the sixth operational synagogue in the Russian capital, which is home to at least 100,000 Jews, according to the European Jewish Congress.

The veterans parade in uniform every year on Victory Day to mark Nazi Germany's surrender to the Soviet Union. The rest of the year, nobody notices them.

The popular Russian-born, U.S.-based singer-songwriter will perform in Caesarea in August with her signature brand of crafty ballads.

Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the wealthiest men of the 19th century, and also one of the most generous.

A stunning building at the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Shadal street has a colorful, fascinating past.

The million Russian-speakers who arrived in the 1990s changed this country, but they also were changed by it. Lily Galili, co-author of a new book about their aliyah, experienced something similar, some 30 years earlier.

The prominent Russians, including the president of the Russian Jewish Congress, wrote that their message was a reaction to the April 3 letter initiated by the dovish Israel Policy Forum.

Tel Aviv University researchers, who record 30 % rise in anti-Semitism after 2-year decline, take into consideration cultural context when classifying incidents as 'anti-Semitic.'

Birobidzhan was intended as a national home for Jews in the Russian Far East. The foundation was laid but the project never really got off the ground.

Boris Berezovsky, 67, who was once the richest man in Russia, fled to Britain a decade ago after a fallout with President Putin amid fraud charges that the deceased claimed was politically motivated.