For more than 1,000 young Jews assembled in Moscow at the end of April, it was just another successful event in a chain of gatherings that has become a magnet for Russian-speaking Jews around the ...

As the Limmud Jewish learning extravaganza spreads, it has become an opportunity for authors to promote books, artists to collaborate and Jewish organizations to find new audience and donors. Last ...

Telling a story is a core tradition of Judaism – as we do for Pesach , telling the story every year of the Exodus from Egypt.

With more than $1 million in funding and with conferences in Israel, America, Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and, soon, Moldova, Limmud FSU may have achieved the impossible: a way of making Jewishness ...

Barely 24 hours after the presidents of Israel and Ukraine solemnly inaugurated a memorial complex commemorating the 1941 massacre of 33,000 Jews by Nazis and local collaborators at Babyn Yar, in ...

We should be able to go to Limmud like anyone else, and we should be able to teach people, too. It makes me happy to teach people.” Shoshana Bloom, an ardent advocate for those with special needs in ...

Eli Khanukayev, an Azerbaijani Jew who works in information technology, spent a recent Sunday immersed in the Jewish culture of his native country. The 23-year-old was among several dozen volunteer ...

While Jews have long had a special appreciation for books and taken pride in their formidable achievements with the written word, they’re also no lightweights when it comes to the spoken word. That ...

“You ask why have we made this Limmud in Germany,” writes a journalist who journeyed to the other side to help organize the big event. The simple answer: It feels like a great way to contribute to the ...

Jewish culture and learning will be highlighted during Limmud New Orleans, which will take place March 18-20 at Congregation Gates of Prayer, 4000 W. Esplanade Ave., Metairie, and at the Lavin-Bernick ...

Journalist and author Lisa Alcalay Klug flew across the country this month to present at Limmud NY, the annual New York version of the worldwide Jewish learning extravaganza. The Jan. 14-17 conference ...