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		<title>Jewish life of Euro-Asian region in May: programs and events</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2020 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Faith, cohesion, creativity, and modern technology help the EAJC communities and organizations overcome any difficulties,...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>Faith, cohesion, creativity, and modern technology help the EAJC communities and organizations overcome any difficulties, turning them into opportunities. We continue telling you about fascinating projects and events in the Jewish life of the Euro-Asian region.</b></p>
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<p><b>All-Russian Union of Jewish Students (RUJS)</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Young volunteers of the All-Russian Union of Jewish Students delivered grocery sets to elderly members of the Samara community in Moscow. The Representative Office of the Samara Region supported the charity action initiated and held by the Representative Office of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in Russia.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The All-Russian Union of Jewish Students continues a series of online meetings, organized jointly with the Jewish Agency for Israel (Sokhnut).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The representatives of Sokhnut, Yuri Shakhar and Roman Polonsky informed the students about the internship and study opportunities in Israel, the Israeli medical insurance system, and the history of the 1990s post-Soviet aliyah. The managing partner of the Israeli investment platform JSCapital, chief editor of the IT Business Week magazine, Roman Gold told the participants about Israel&#8217;s unique innovation ecosystem.</span></p>
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<p><b>Hillel Russia</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the beginning of the self-isolation regime, Hillel Russia continues to support Jewish youth by organizing educational activities, coordinating volunteer activities and targeted assistance programs while involving activists as project leaders.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Online Hebrew study groups have started in Moscow and St. Petersburg preserving the dynamics of traditional classroom learning. In Moscow, the Alpha+ program brought together newcomers and those continuing the fall course. In St. Petersburg, online Hebrew lessons for beginners have started.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hillel Russia supports World War II veterans and Holocaust survivors while also engaging students in commemorative events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazism.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Khabarovsk and Yekaterinburg, volunteers delivered flowers and food packages to 58 veterans. In Yekaterinburg, young people gathered at ZOOM to sing their favorite songs from the World War II years together.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The World Shabbat, dedicated to the victory over Nazism, gathered 220 Russian-speaking students from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Moscow, Hillel Russia gathered volunteers to decrypt documents, diaries, and letters collected by the Holocaust Foundation. In Yekaterinburg, the evening in memory of the Holocaust victims and heroes of the resistance concluded with a minute of silence.</span></p>
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<p><b>Hillel CASE</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As part of the Hillel Art Labs project, dozens of students took part in the workshops on creative thinking by the actress and director Julia Savina.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The regional Quiz Box games continue gaining popularity among the youth of Hillel. During this difficult period, the Quiz Box project, which combines fun and Jewish education, became the flagship and inspiration for other Jewish projects in the region. Dozens of teams from different countries take part in Quiz Box games.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Students of the CASE region took part in the World Shabbat initiative, which brought together Jewish youth from Khabarovsk to Baku. Over 170 connections in Zoom, over 100 views on FB.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Limmud Brain Labs project attracted 35 teams and more than 150 participants to its traditional game.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Be-in-Touch volunteer project has started helping single elderly members of the Jewish community, World War II veterans, and children with disabilities. The project operates in Minsk, Kiev, Dnieper, Kharkov, Odessa, and Lviv. Over the course of three months, students will deliver grocery packages as well as maintain regular communication with people who need support during this difficult period.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In total, over a thousand students take part in Hillel&#8217;s programs, including English and Hebrew study groups, educational and entertainment projects, quizzes, and flashmobs.</span></p>
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<p><b>Representative office of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in Central Asia (Mitsva Association)</b></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Torah study project “On the Road” continues its popular classes online. For more than 20 years, representatives of different generations have gathered to learn the wisdom of the Torah, and they didn&#8217;t stop now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">People from Kazakhstan, who had previously attended the classes at the Rimon Jewish Community Center, these days, resumed their participation online. Natalia Rynkovskaya, the longtime teacher of the project, notes that although classroom teaching is more effective, the recent online experience can be useful for conducting classes with an international audience.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The youngsters of the Pavlodar Jewish community were among the winners of the competition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany. The young leaders of the Merkaz ethnocultural association were the best in the creative contest &#8220;In Memory of the War Heroes&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ten young activists of the Jewish community of Almaty took part in the international flashmob honoring the Jerusalem Day. 200 peers from the CIS countries confessed their love to the capital of Israel, the spiritual center of the Jewish people.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During a series of lessons about Ashkenazi Jewish culture, young community leaders acquainted the traditions of Eastern European Jews as well as the atmosphere of Jewish shtetls. In August, the School of Madrichs&#8217;s students will conduct community classes dedicated to the unique culture of the Eastern European Jewry.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For two months now, the Shaat Hebrew Club is holding its lessons online. The audience of the Club has expanded significantly, including not only Almaty residents but also representatives of other Kazakhstan Jewish communities.</span></p>
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		<title>Jewish life in Euro-Asian region goes online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The threat of the spread of coronavirus could not paralyze the activities of Jewish communities...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b>The threat of the spread of coronavirus could not paralyze the activities of Jewish communities and organizations comprising the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. On the contrary, the emergency regime gave a new impetus to the mobilization of forces and the rallying of people. Jewish life in the Euro-Asian region is undergoing a dynamic development focused on online content, programs, and communications.</b></p>
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<p><b>The representative office of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress in Central Asia (Mitsva Association)</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is expanding the database of online courses and content while training teachers-volunteers in the field of online education.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hebrew lesson taught by volunteers was the first online lesson in the new format. Chess, choreography, and fitness lessons followed. Children&#8217;s educational virtual program Mini Club, which is basically an online development center, is coming soon.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The traditional Shabbat weekly meetings also went online, and the first online Shabbat has already brought together 11 families. Soon, online classes on Pesach history and tradition will begin.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Kesher project, an international women&#8217;s organization with representation in 5 countries, supported by the EAJC</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, has announced a series of webinars: from a financial literacy course to an online meeting on the development of Jewish female leadership.</span></p>
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<p><b>Hillel CASE (Central Asia Southeastern Europe), which operates with the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress,</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has developed and implements a diverse online program covering a large number of young participants from around the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">151 teams from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Israel, the Netherlands, and the US took part in the fourth game of the online Quiz Box project season.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hillel CASE students gathered online to meet Shabbat together. More than 100 students from Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Israel shared photos of their Shabbat on Instagram.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The soulful online Havdalah ceremony &#8211; a Jewish religious ceremony that marks the symbolic end of Shabbat and ushers in the new week, has been organized by Hillel Kiev, which also launched a new author&#8217;s project in collaboration with Limmud Labs: the intellectual game Limmud Brain Labs with the participation of 44 teams from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Israel, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Germany. The premiere of the project attracted more than 200 participants, and this is only the beginning.</span></p>
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<p><b>The Jewish Association of the Philippines, affiliated with the </b><b>Euro-Asian Jewish Congress</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, continues teaching preschool children online. As for adults, the community offers online challah preparation and Shabbat lessons.</span></p>
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<p><b>Hillel Russia, supported by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, adapted all the country&#8217;s Hillels to distance work and moved the educational programs online. As part of the new Shabbat Home program, visitors will receive a set that includes Siddur, Shabbat candles, two challahs, and a bottle of kosher juice or wine. Hillel Russia also offers special online sessions for those who conduct Shabbat on their own for the first time. The whole team contributes to the development of online programs, including the celebration of Pesach.</span></p>
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<p><b>The international educational platform JFuture, the flagship project of the EAJC</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">held its first online lesson in 28 cities around the world. More than 500 kids gathered together to learn a lot of interesting things about the history and traditions of Pesach. JFuture also offers children interactive Hebrew lessons online.</span></p>
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<p><b>The All-Russian Union of Jewish Students (RUJS), with the support of the EAJC</b><span style="font-weight: 400;">, launched a new online project helping young people to study and use conversational Hebrew. Students attend fascinating online meetings and discussions with Israeli journalists, political and public figures, as well as prominent rabbis and artists.</span></p>
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<p><b>Dear friends, together we will overcome difficult times and unite even more to protect our loved ones, the Jewish people, and the whole world. Stay home!</b></p>
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		<title>Jewish students across Euro-Asian region celebrate Purim</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jewish student organizations supported by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress met Purim 2020 with many kinds...]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="ltr">Jewish student organizations supported by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress met Purim 2020 with many kinds of merrymaking.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Hillel CASE (Central Asia Southeastern Europe), which operates with the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, has united student centers in Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan through a Purim carnival.</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">Minsk Jewish Student Cultural Center Hillel, in collaboration with Israeli cultural center Nativ, offered a Purim art master class in a real artist’s studio specially decorated for Purim. Inspired by the amazing atmosphere, the participants created wonderful paintings telling the ancient story of the most fun Jewish holiday.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Hillel Minsk, in partnership with the Jewish Volunteer Movement, also launched a real Purim mail: Hillel student volunteers conducted a master class for children from the Jewish Family Support Center. Kids created Purim handmade gifts, and special Purim postmen delivered them to the address during the holiday.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Hillel Kiev welcomed Purim traditionally, by reopening a Purim bakery for children to make hamantashen from scratch. This year, more than 250 handmade hamantashen cookies have been made in the bakery. The next day they were delivered as a gift to the wards of the Hesed Shaare Tikva.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Odessa Hillel invited students to the Roaring 20s Purim Party: live music, carnival, quizzes, contests, dances, games! Odessa students got in the mood of Purim and had fun.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Hillel Kharkov chose the graceful style of the 60s as a theme for a Purim carnival. The evening opened with a traditional Purimshpil, an original musical show about the ancient story of Purim, created and performed by the students. And, as it happens every Purim in Kharkov, the annual Hillel Purim Hype Awards ceremony took place. Later, the musical Purimshpil was also presented to the wards of the Hesed Shaare Tikva as a Purim gift.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Students of Hillel Baku joined the entire Jewish community of Baku, dressed up in costumes and celebrated Purim with Megillah reading, a celebratory meal, and joyful music.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>All Purim events of the All-Russian Union of Jewish Students (RUJS) were held thanks to the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">The Haverim Jewish community at the Moscow State University (MSU), with the participation of the All-Russian Union of Jewish Students (RUJS) and the MSU Jewish Club, hosted the Purim Rock &amp; Roll Party. Students of the MSU and other Moscow universities came together to listen to the story of Purim and, of course, to drink l&#8217;chaim &#8211; to life.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The All-Russian Union of Jewish Students (RUJS) and the Union of Israeli Students at MGIMO (Jewish Club) arranged a meeting of students with rabbi Alex Artovsky. A lively discussion about Purim ensued, and then students participated in a Purim quiz contest.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The Jewish Club of the St. Petersburg State University in cooperation with the All-Russian Union of Jewish Students (RUJS) welcomed Purim with a Megillah reading and traditional hamentashen. As part of the entertainment program, students tried their hand at Hebrew calligraphy, played games, participated in a Purim quiz and competition for the best costume.</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong>For a whole week, Hillel Russia, supported by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, welcomed Purim with costume parties, intellectual quests, dance, and karaoke battles. For many participants in seven cities of Russia, the Hillel Russia event was the first experience of a Purim celebration.</strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr">In Moscow, young people gathered for the Neon Purim Party at the Garage club with a light show, the quest &#8220;Finding the Esther Scroll&#8221;, dances, and games. In St. Petersburg, the Noah&#8217;s Ark Party brought together students dressed up as the Jewish biblical heroes. In Yekaterinburg, at the Space Purim Party, students took part in a team laser tag tournament and a virtual reality game route. In Khabarovsk, the Wild West Purim Party engaged the guests into the Indians and Cowboys game. In Saratov, guests went through seven rounds of a Purim intellectual team quiz. In Penza, guests gathered at the festive table with traditional treats while in Novosibirsk, teams competed in the Purim Stars karaoke battle.</p>
<p dir="ltr">“The Purim сarnival unites young people. This is a vivid and bright impression associated with the Jewish people, friends, and fun. We at the EAJC are sincerely glad that Jewish students of the Euro-Asian region are interested in the history and tradition of their people, largely due to the leaders and activists of Jewish student organizations,&#8221; said the Director General of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Dr. Haim Ben Yaakov.</p>
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		<title>Jewish Culture Festival Supported by EAJC was held in St.Petersburg on August 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2019 12:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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			<p>Major Jewish Culture Festival titled “Oy Vey” was held in St. Petersburg on August 25. For one day the guests of the new city landmark SEVKABEL PORT were transported to the market and streets of Tel Aviv: they tasted authentic Israeli food, listened to fiery music, met with the most interesting media persons of the city, attended various workshops and got acquainted with Jewish traditions and modern culture of Israel.</p>
<p>Organizers of the festival were HILLEL Jewish Center in St. Petersburg, with generous support by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, and the LIGHT MUSIC concert agency, which was also responsible for the festival’s music program.</p>
<p>The music program featured MALABI TROPICAL band, Israelis who have been wandering on a non-stop music tour since 2014. They fused Latin rhythms and Jewish melodies into a unique tropical rock. From street parties to the major festivals of Eurasia no one could resist their live performance! The MALABI TROPICAL was joined by St. Petersburg GOODNIGHT group of street musicians that for 20 years have been second to none in presenting Jewish folklore and Odessa songs. During their performances, even the most modest and intellectual spectators turned into musicians and dancers, and with each song the revelry flared up more and more.</p>
<p>The idea of the festival is to imbue every guest with the atmosphere of Tel Aviv, the most vibrant city of Israel. Here they sold sweets, there jewelry was on sale, around the corner a café was wide open, and right opposite it musicians played. And how could one do without street artists, travelers, rabbis, artisans and other colorful characters? Every one of them shared his or her story, while guests could get acquainted with the new culture in the fascinating festival format.</p>
<p>The festival program included:</p>
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<li>Food court where the best Jewish restaurants of the city were present</li>
<li>Presentations by rabbis and official representatives of Israel in Russia, as well as by street artists, travelers, guides, and cooks</li>
<li>Children&#8217;s playroom</li>
<li>STEREOLETO and PARTS OF THE WORLD festivals’ organizers were responsible for the music program.</li>
<li>Market of Jewish designers from Israel and Russia</li>
<li>Workshops: henna drawings on the palms, a traditional ceremony of Yemeni Jews; different folk dances; cooking of Israeli street food</li>
<li>Contemporary Israeli artists and photographers exhibition</li>
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		<title>Hillel opened free Hebrew courses in Moscow with the EAJC support</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<p>On August 25 HILLEL Jewish youth organization launched a Hebrew course in Moscow. The course includes six classes held every Sunday from 16.00 to 17.30 in the cultural and educational space of Sokolniki Park called BUKVODOM (literally, <i>Book Home</i>).</p>
<p>These lessons make it possible to learn Hebrew for everyone who is eager to do so: the tuition is provided free of charge by Hebrew teacher Ilya Yuzefovich. The course is given in the park and gathers more than a thousand participants.</p>
<p>Hebrew is an amazing language. The Hebrew alphabet is one of the oldest known to mankind. There are neither vowels nor capital letters in it. This language is based on strict logic and is incredibly beautiful. Hebrew knowledge is useful not only for visiting Israel, but also for studying the history of major world religions.</p>
<p>This free Hebrew course was made possible by the support of the GENESIS Foundation and the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.</p>
<p>Bella Waldberg, EAJC-Russia CEO:</p>
<p>“The best way to increase the accessibility and attractiveness of language learning is to make the learning informal, i.e. to leave classrooms for leisure areas, to abandon the conventional surroundings and teaching methods.</p>
<p>Hebrew is considered to be one of the oldest and at the same time one of the youngest languages of our planet. Courses such as this one provide a great opportunity to explore the origins of Jewish culture and civilization in the rhythm of a modern city. Moreover, the strengthening of business and friendly ties between Russia and Israel, as well as the growing interest in learning “exotic” languages can expand the potential audience of the course.</p>
<p>We are grateful to our partner, the Hillel-Russia Center, for this initiative and are very happy to support the project, thanks to which Hebrew learning has become more accessible in Moscow. &#8220;</p>

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