Israel's Chief Rabbi Should Be Disciplined for Racist Comments, Judicial Ombudsman Says

Controversial comments by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef targeting Israelis from former Soviet state prompted backlash, with Netanyahu labeling them 'outrageous'

‘Almost Kafkaesque’: For These American Jews, Moving to Israel Is Becoming a Nightmare

A little-known rule change has turned immigration into a bureaucratic minefield for second-generation U.S. Jews with roots in the former communist bloc

Israel's Chief Rabbi Calls Russian Immigrants 'Communist, Religion-hating Gentiles'

Netanyahu condemns Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef's remarks as 'outrageous.' Politicians and progressive clergy call for his ouster over the tirade at a rabbinical conference

In Israel’s Top Court, a Test Case for the Rights of Patrilineal Jews

Widows and widowers of those born to Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers are being denied the immigration rights afforded to those who were married to matrilineal Jews — and it could have consequences for American Jews

Opinion Avigdor Lieberman’s New 'Russians'

Israel Election Results: Gantz Failed Because of Our Work, Says Netanyahu Campaign Wizard

Still, Srulik Einhorn says he believes the prime minister will be able to form another governing coalition

For These Young Israelis, Netanyahu’s Ties With Putin Are Not a Vote Winner

Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing rival Avigdor Lieberman are both chasing the Russian vote in September’s election, but young members of the community seem unimpressed by their efforts

Rabbinate Making It Harder for Israeli Immigrants to Prove They’re Jewish, Study Finds

The Rabbinate is moving toward science and documents to prove Judaism, complicating Ethiopian and former Soviet Jews' attempts to marry in Israel

Are Israel's New Immigrants Keeping Netanyahu in Power?

In the past 20 years, some 600,000 new immigrants came to Israel – principally from Russia, France and North America. They may be the real reason that the country's politics is now fixed on the right

The Russian Immigrants Who Left Israel and Are Making It Back in Moscow

Three decades after the mass immigration from the former Soviet Union, many of the younger generation are still unable to integrate into Israeli society and some are even trying their luck back in Moscow

Exclusive Number of Russians Moving to Israel Sees Dramatic Rise, American Aliyah Figures Drop

Total immigration to Israel shows modest increase of 5 percent over the past 12 months, according to Jewish Agency estimates, although numbers making aliyah from France slumped 25 percent

Russian Jewish Leader Reported Injured After Package Sent by Mail Explodes

The incident is being investigated as an attempted murder, local officials say

'A Danger to Public Security:' Roman Abramovich Reportedly Denied Swiss Residency

Swiss police reportedly advised authorities to deny the Russian oligarch's application for residence due to money laundering suspicions and connection to criminal organizations

Opinion Israeli Justice Minister’s Personal Import to the Supreme Court

Ayelet Shaked didn’t choose Prof. Alex Stein because he’s a legal genius, but because of the right-wing views he espoused for 14 years at the not-so-stellar Brooklyn Law

Jerusalem & Babylon Putin's Pet Oligarch Roman Abramovich Is Now Israel's Richest Man. But Is He Worthy of Citizenship?

Its founders didn't declare in 1948 that, 'The State of Israel is open for the ingathering of exiles and exiled murky money tax-evaders and sex offenders.' But that's what the Law of Return has facilitated

The Issue That Finally Forced Russian-speaking Israelis to Take to the Streets

The community is vowing to take revenge on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the next election after a new law passed that will keep most of Israel’s stores shut on Shabbat. Revolt is in the air on the streets of Ashdod

Opinion Israeli Racism, post-Soviet Style

The Jews of the former Soviet Union grew up with a sense of alienation from their homeland, so they believe that Israel’s Arab citizens lack roots in Israel

What Were Russia's Jews Up to During the 1917 Revolution? This Moscow Museum Tells All

In 1917, Russian Jews swelled the ranks of the revolution that lead to the rise of the Soviet Union. Jews today still shoulder the blame.

The Summer Camp That Brutally Taught Russian Jews About the Holocaust

Counselors dressed as Nazi soldiers, campers as young as 10 forced to wear yellow patches and witness horrific images – these were just some of the methods the Jewish Agency used to teach the Shoah in the former Soviet Union in the 1990s

Russia Deports Israeli Rabbi, Second Deportation of Chabad Rabbi in 2017

Moscow district court ordered Yosef Khersonsky, an Israeli who heads one of the capital's communities, to leave Russia in connection with his 'setting up without permission a for-profit foreign entity'

Thousands March in Moscow on Anniversary of Jewish Putin Critic's Murder

Boris Nemtsov was gunned down near the Kremlin walls two years ago.

Opinion We the Immigrants Are the World's Future

We, the world’s immigrants and potential immigrants, came to be free, to learn but also to have our cultures of origin acknowledged, and we will not be stopped by walls or restrictions.

Russian Jews Fearful of Kremlin Crackdown After Rabbi's Expulsion

Amid Putin's broader crackdown on foreign and human rights groups, Russian Jews begin to feel they are not immune to the effects of living in an increasingly authoritarian state.

Controversial Dossier on Trump Alleges That Russia Targets Jewish-American Businessmen

One report within the document also discusses relationship between Putin and Alfa Group, owned by three Russian-Jewish billionaires.

This Day in Jewish History 1938: A Poet Who Mocked Stalin Dies in the Gulag

For some reason Stalin elected to 'isolate but preserve' Osip Mandelstam for his subversive poetry, which would only be published decades after his death.

Holocaust on Ice: Putin Aide's Wife Sparks Controversy After Skating in Concentration Camp Garb

It’s not the first time this year that using the Holocaust as a theme on a Russian entertainment television has stirred up controversy.

Despite Misgivings, Russians in America Will Vote Trump

A stroll through Brighton Beach shows that U.S. Russian-speakers are a lot like other white Americans: They fear high taxes that will ultimately benefit other groups.

Bake in the USSR Soviet Emigres Publish Their Own Israeli Cookbook

'The Russian-Jewish Cookbook: Recollections and Recipes of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union' offers a glimpse into the kitchens and rich cultural world of Russians speakers who immigrated to Israel as children.

Opinion Indictment of 'Russian' Politicians a Celebration for Russian Israelis

The corruption charges against Yisrael Beiteinu bigwigs can open the door for true leaders of the community, even if Russian-speakers don’t have their ‘own party’ anymore.