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Celebrating Passover in Siberia and Other Memories
The mosquitoes in Siberia were ferocious. The only place I’ve ever seen anything like it was in Alaska’s Denali Park. For ...
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Siberian Jews open region’s largest Jewish education center in Tomsk
(JTA) — A century ago, communists shuttered the synagogues of Tomsk, one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It was a painful blow, especially to the local community of Jewish Cantonists — former ...
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Tyumen, Siberia Celebrates Opening of New Shul and Mikvah
A Chanukas HaBayis ceremony for the Shul and Chabad House in the City Center of Tyumen, Siberia was attended by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, who was also present for the laying of the ...
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Siberian Government to Renovate Wooden ‘Cantonists Shul’
The historic wooden shul that was built by the Jewish Cantonists, who were taken at a young age by the Russian government to ...
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Hanukkah’s early start and climate change put a Siberian tradition on thin ice
It is currently the only known ice menorah on the continent, as other Siberian Jewish communities were not able to erect their own ice menorah as they have done in previous years. The couple ...