On February, 28 world Jewry celebrated Purim. Scarcely had the impressions from bright joyful Purim Spiels settled down when the organizations of the Minsk Jewish Campus get down to new work: Pessah preparations are in full swing. This year (the year of 5770 in the Jewish calendar) Pessah starts since the sunset of March, 29 and lasts till April, 6.
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04.03.2010 March, 3 a press conference of the musical band “Nayekhovichi” with the organizers of its concert — the JDC, the Jewish Student Organization “Beit Hillel” and the concert agency Bopromo was held.
The concert of the group which took place in the Minsk night club “Reactor” gave a start to their European tour.
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19.02.2010 The “Youth Leadership” project opened a new season of work (the project is supported by the Ginsburg Family, USA). Project participants invited their friends to celebrate successful work of the program since 2003 and some new initiatives of 2009.More...
18.02.2010 Photo exhibition «Holocaust. 65 Years Later» organized by the public association «Jewish Culture Center «Mishpoha» (directed by Arcady Shulman) and the Vitebsk Regional Local History Museum opened in Vitebsk under the financial support of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research.More...
15.02.2010 Year by year the Minsk book exhibition attracts more and more visitors and participants. This time 619 representatives from 26 countries have displayed their stands. This year France has become a guest of honor of the 17th International Minsk Book Exhibition “Books of Belarus 2010”. In 2008 this honorary mission fell to Israel’s lot.More...
10.02.2010 The 2nd Republican Children Artwork Exhibition «Holocaust. History and the Present. Lessons of Tolerance» was open in Borisov central regional library named after Kolodeev. The exhibition is a joint event organized by the Union of Belarusian Jewish Organizations and Communities and the Holocaust Republican Organization and timed to the 65th Anniversary since the Minsk ghetto was closed down.More...
08.02.2010 An exhibition “Mogilev: Jewish Scenes 2010” was open on February, 1. There were displayed 80 pictures of the 130 photos that had been presented during the second photography contest organized by Mogilev Jewish community.More...
02.02.2010 Table of talks “Development of Programs on Informal Education in Youth Summer Camps” was held in Minsk on the initiative of the “Belarus Federation of UNESCO Clubs”.
Minsk Hillel is a recognized authority in the sphere of informal education in Belarus. That’s why representatives of the organization were invited to the meeting.More...
01.02.2010 The Jewish Book Community Festival took place in Minsk for the 11th time already. It became a tradition to dedicate the last day of the festival to children; that makes perfect sence as we all grew up reading books by wonderful writers for kids: Barto, Marshak, Kvitko and others. The children theatre studio directed by Elena Chugaevskaya sang “Creation of the World” and thus opened the Festival. The Volunteer Family Theatre “Mishpoha” staged its new play, choreographic ensemble “Neposedy” and vocal studio also performed. There have recently been published many children books of high quality with amazing illustrations. To make sure, visit library of the Jewish Community Center “Emunah”. At the Book Festival a presentationMore...
28.01.2010 On January, 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day was held in the Republican Veterans’ Palace of Culture in Minsk. As during many years already, the UN Office in the Republic of Belarus and the Holocaust Republican Organization initiated the event.More...
26.01.2010 On January, 24 more than 150 people visited the 11th Jewish Book Community Festival that took place in the Minsk Jewish Campus. Book exhibition has always been an essential part of all the Jewish book festivals. More than 50 new books published in Belarus were presented by the Jewish Community Center “Emunah” to the audience.More...
18.01.2010 The first seminar "Jewish Education 2010" was held in Jewish communities of Belarus with the help of JDC and the Pincus Fund. The two-year project is supported by the grant of Pincus Fund and the Norwegian Fund. It will help to promote education in Jewish communities of Brest, Bobruisk, Grodno, Orsha, Mogilev, Mozyr, Borisov and Lida. Within the framework of the project weekly lessons on Jewish history, traditions and culture will be organized both for children and adults.More...
14.01.2010 The Jewish Family Outreach Service has organized an excursion to Jewish places of Belarus for its most active volunteers. Most of them are clients of the JFOS. The first destination was Volozhin town. Jews have been first mentioned in the history of Volozhin in the middle of the 14th century.More...
Alevtina Babyna became Hesed client in 1998 when the recrudescence of polyarthritis in lower limbs put her on crutches. The pain was insufferable, so was the feeling of helplessness and irrelevance against her long previous life full of physical endurance.
At 73, he still is what his father had been all his life: dedicated communist and convinced internationalist. Named after Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx’s pal and accomplice in their abortive attempts to overthrow the reign of misappropriated surplus value, he still mourns the USSR and blames those who emigrate for a better living in Israel, in the USA or, even worse, in Germany.
Tanya suffers from phenylketonuria also known as Filling's disease. It affects the brain, causing convulsions, hyperactivity, self–traumatic behavior and mental disorders.
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