Vladislav Flyarkovsky: the holiday of Sukkot is of a tremendous significance
The Jewish holiday of Sukkot is incredibly significant for every person
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Sukkot 2024: Festival "Shalash, Shalom!" kicks off in Moscow
The festival dedicated to the joyful Jewish holiday of Sukkot 2024 kicked off in Moscow today. The event called "Shalash, Shalom!" is taking place at the Memorial Synagogue on Poklonnaya Hill. Its organizers invite everyone to visit the festival.
Representatives of different faiths live in Azerbaijan as one family throughout history - Ilham Aliyev
Azerbaijan, which plays the role of a bridge between the East and the West, is one of the unique places, where friendly and fraternal relations have existed between peoples, and ethnic and cultural diversity and high multicultural values have …
Passover 2024: Jewish people celebrate their birthday
Today, Jews all over the world celebrate one of the brightest holidays - Passover. It commemorates the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian slavery.
Purim 2024: the most joyful Jewish holiday celebrated in Moscow
A festive evening for Purim 2024 was organized by the Russian Jewish Congress in Moscow
Father Frosts, snowfall in Moscow, Hanukkah and exhibitions: the best photos of December 2023
Winter in Moscow is in full swing. There is snow on the streets, New Year's decor is glowing. Vestnik Kavkaza shows you the brightest photos of December 2023.
Rosh Hashanah 2023: Jewish world celebrates New Year
The Jewish New Year began this evening after sunset
Hip-Hop style Purim on Poklonnaya Gora
The most joyful Jewish holiday – Purim – was celebrated by the Russian Jewish Congress at the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue on Poklonnaya Gora in a hip-hop style. On …
Garibashvil highlights “brotherhood” between Georgian, Jewish people
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili visited the Great Synagogue in Tbilisi to join celebrations of the Hanukkah, an eight-day annual Jewish festival, and hailed the “brotherhood” between the Georgian and Jewish people. …
Jewish community celebrating Hanukkah
Jewish communities started celebrating Hanukkah this weekend. The Jewish festival of light, which lasts eight nights, involves lighting candles on a menorah, eating fried foods and playing with spinning tops called dreidels. Hanukkah is …
UAE opens kosher market for growing Jewish community
The Jewish community in the UAE has substantially grown over the last two years
Egypt to restore historic synagogue
The Egyptian government announced the launch of restoration works at the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo, as part of efforts to revive Jewish heritage and attract more tourists to the country. According to …
Jewish Travel Union names Baku “City of the Month”
ews contributed significantly to the development of the industrial, intellectual, and scientific life of Baku
2,600-year old Jewish legacy in Turkey
Although some think the history of Turkey's Jews goes back to the Spanish Inquisition of 1492, new findings reveal that it is far older, over 2,500 years
Istanbul-based rabbi behind the evacuation of Afghanistan's 'last Jew'
Rabbi Mendy Chitrik took an active role in evacuating Zebulun Simantov, who arrived in Istanbul on Oct. 17 after Turkey granted him a visa
Jews around the world celebrate Rosh Hashanah today
Rosh Hashanah is a holiday, which marks the beginning of the year in the Jewish calendar. It is one of the most important Jewish holidays. This year, Rosh Hashanah (the new year 5782 in the beginning of creation according to the Jewish …
Jews around the world celebrate Passover
Jews around the world celebrate Passover: this is the main holiday in Judaism, dedicated to the events known as the Exodus from Egypt. The Passover is celebrated on the 14th day of the spring month of Nisan according to the Hebrew …
Azerbaijan's Jews try to preserve centuries-old Passover traditions
This year, Jewish Easter – Passover – is celebrated from March 27th to April 4th.
Rabbi: "The Jewish people and the Azeri people share open-mindedness"
For decades, Rabbi Zamir Isayev has prayed on Shabbat mornings for the government of his native Azerbaijan, a Muslim-majority nation situated northwest of Iran, Jewish Telepgraph Agency writes in the article In Azerbaijan, patriotic Jewish soldiers are poster children of the war with Armenia. Amid the recent deadly fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan over disputed territory, he has added a special prayer for the well-being of Azerbaijan’s soldiers, which he follows up with his regular prayer for Israeli troops. “Israel is my country as a Jew. Azerbaijan is my country as an Azeri,” Isayev, 40, told the Jewish Telegraphic agency. He was born in Baku, the Azerbaijani capital, but grew up in Israel and served in its army
Jews pray for peace in Nagorno-Karabakh
"On October 18th, I found myself in Azerbaijan’s Ganja, a day after the fourth missile attack had struck civilian targets in the city. I witnessed the tragic scenes of destruction and death in a residential district, meeting Jewish families and hearing their accounts first-hand," Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of Azerbaijan Shneor Segal writes in the article Daring to hope in Nagorno-Karabakh for Jewish News
