MOSCOW (AP) – In czarist times, Geda Zimanenko watched her mother offer the local police officer a shot of vodka on a plate and five rubles every Sunday to overlook the fact that their family lived ...

The names of the Kedoshim of Rudnya, Russia, were immortalized on a renewed memorial tablet at their burial site on the day of their murder by the Nazis 84 years ago.

Polly Zavadivker teaches courses in Modern Jewish and European History, and directs the Program in Jewish Studies. Her current book project, entitled “A Nation of Refugees: World War I and the End of ...

An extensive Jewish quarter from the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria has been found near one of the world’s most ancient synagogues in Russia’s Taman Peninsula, north of the Black Sea. The Volnoe ...

Jews in the predominantly Muslim region of Dagestan in southern Russia say they are determined to regroup and rebuild following a deadly attack by Islamic militants on Christian and Jewish houses of ...

Gershkovich was freed as part of a massive, 24-person prisoner exchange that included several prominent people jailed by Russia. Evan Gershkovich, the American Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter who ...