9/7/2010 1:00 PM

A new report released by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia calculates that approximately 14,000 students attend educational institutions supported by the Moscow-based organization in cooperation with international businessman and philanthropist Lev Leviev’s Ohr Avner Foundation.   read »

9/5/2010 9:40 AM

Airport officials in Munich, Germany, got a lesson in shofar blowing after pulling aside an Israeli rabbi they suspected of illegally transporting forbidden animal trophies.   read »

9/2/2010 2:00 PM

Transportation officials affixed what is believed to be the world’s largest kosher mezuzah to an interior entranceway of Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport, capping a years-long effort by a village rabbi to impart a hefty dose of spirituality in the country’s biggest passenger hub.   read »