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As announced earlier this week by a Board of EAJC, a Founder and President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein was appointed  as vice president of the Eurasian Jewish Congress, representing Jewish communities in Russia, Ukraine, and more than 20 other countries. The IFCJ and

Dear Friends, Purim is, above all, a celebration of our victory over the forces of antisemitism. We must never forget our roots, and what we are ready to do for our people. When we are united and spiritually strong, we can never be defeated. Together, we will overcome those who

The Yad Sarah - Frenkel Emergency Medical Center opened this past week in Jerusalem. Unlike other emergency medical centers in Israel which are staffed by general practitioners and feature one universal department that accepts all patients, the new medical center is divided into three departments—Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Gynecology, with

In a rare questioning of authorities, Jewish leader in Belarus said they were “concerned” over plans to build apartments atop what used to be a Jewish cemetery in Gomel. The statement by the Union of Public Associations and Jewish Communities provided to JTA earlier this week is unusual in a

Mikhael Mirilashvili, President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), expressed his surprise at a decision rendered by the international managing committee charged with renovating the Sobibor Concentration Camp Museum to refuse Russia’s participation and assistance in the project. Mirilashvili noted that it is necessary to differentiate between international politics and

The delegates of the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC), which is currently taking place in Ramat Gan, elected the known businessman and philanthropist Mikhail Mirilashvili to the post of EAJC President. Mirilashvili was born on May 1, 1960, in the Kulashi village of Georgia. He graduated