Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization ‘Sefer,’ working under the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) '' (Director - EAJC General Council member Dr. Victoria Mochalova, Chairman of the Academic Council – the EAJC Secretary General Professor Michael Chlenov) opened the annual program ''Eshnav,'' within the framework of which graduate and postgraduate students, and young researchers engaged in Jewish Studies in the FSU are selected by competitive process to be traditionally sent to Israel for a month-long internship.
The Israeli Cultural Center at the Embassy of the State of Israel in Russia has held a ceremony dedicated to the installation of a memorial plaque to the Hero of the Soviet Union Leonid Buber at the Giv'At Ha'Tashmoshet (Ammunition Hill) National Memorial.
On the 22nd of July, 170 children ages 7-17 from 23 national communities from Ukraine, Moldova, and Belarus have participated in the opening of the International Children's Camp “Roots of Tolerance,” which is taking place at the Latorytsa rest home in Mukachevo, Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin exchanged his views with the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Secretary General Professor Michael Chlenov, who representedthe Federal Jewish National Cultural Autonomy, at a meeting with representatives of major Russian faiths, ethnic, cultural and public organizations, which took place in Moscow, hosted by the All-Russia Popular Front.
With deep sadness we have learned of the untimely passing of Rav Abba Dunner, the irreplaceable Executive Director of the Conference of European Rabbis.
One of the veterans of the Independent Jewish Movement in the USSR, Vladimir Mushinsky, has visited the Moscow office of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.
Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Secretary General Professor Michael Chlenov made a working visit to Petrozavodsk. He visited thr local synagogue and Jewish school, and met with the leaders of the Petrozavodsk Jewish community.
