Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
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Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC) is a Jewish
organisation dedicated to restoring Jewish life, culture and religion in the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS), the former Soviet Union
. The FJC was founded in November 1998.
Current heads of the organization are:
Its headquarters is in Moscow, Russia
, and it has an office in New York
.
FJC have a total of 454 affiliated member communities throughout the former USSR. http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=386677
Jews
The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
organisation dedicated to restoring Jewish life, culture and religion in the Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union....
(CIS), the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
. The FJC was founded in November 1998.
Current heads of the organization are:
- Lev LevievLev LevievLev Avnerovich Leviev is a Bukharian-Israeli billionaire businessman, with a net worth of roughly $1.5 billion following the 2008 global financial crisis. Leviev is one of the most prominent Mizrahi Jewish individuals in the world and has been a major philanthropist for Jewish causes in Eastern...
, President of FJC of the CIS - Rabbi Berel LazarBerel LazarRabbi Shlomo Dovber Pinchas Lazar, better known as Berel Lazar, is an Orthodox, Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic rabbi. He is presently Chief Rabbi of Russia, and chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities...
, chief rabbi of Russia, head of Union of Rabbis of CIS
Its headquarters is in Moscow, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, and it has an office in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
.
FJC have a total of 454 affiliated member communities throughout the former USSR. http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=386677
Russia
The 171 member communities of FJC in Russia http://www.fjc.ru/communities/communities.asp?aid=80069 are as follows:Member Community | Rabbi | Local Leader |
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Abakan | Grigory Pekhotnik & V. Adyanov | |
Achinsk | Ilya Grinberg | |
Anapa | Iosif Rogelberg & Tatiana Shaulova | |
Angarsk | Roman Mattern | |
Arkhangelsk | Vladimir Bovykin, Boris Litvak, Vadim Kalinin & Zhanna Bovykina. | |
Armavir | Vladimir Armer | |
Arsenyev | Vitaliy Nikitin, Isaak Myasnikov, Grigoriy Rosenblum, Elena Lazareva & Anton Zazontov. | |
Artem | Boris Shlemov | |
Astrakhan | Rabbi Shlomo Goldenberg | Yuri Feldman & Larisa Russ. |
Balakovo | Dmitriy Adrianov | |
Balashov | Vladimir Vendrov | |
Barnaul | Rabbi Isroel Noah Kamenetsky | Sergey Leonov & Mila Nezdatnaya. |
Belgorod | Yury Grisko, Lola Kolpina & Shtalman Elena. | |
Birobidzhan Birobidzhan Birobidzhan is a town and the administrative center of the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Russia. It is located on the Trans-Siberian railway, close to the border with the People's Republic of China.... |
Rabbi Mordechai Scheiner Mordechai Scheiner Mordechai Sheiner has been Chief Rabbi of Jewish Autonomous Oblast since 2002.-Background:Mordechai Sheiner came to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in 2002. He arrived in Birobidzhan as a 30 year old rabbi from Israel. He had never been to Birobidzhan before, but spoke Russian thanks to two years he... |
Lev Toitman Lev Toitman Lev Grigorievich Toitman, , was a soldier in World War II . Toitman is known for the, "foundation and revival of the local Jewish community" in Birobidzhan.-Jewish Community leadership:... |
Biysk | Yan Ozornin | |
Blagoveschensk | Valeri Malinovsky, Olga Ponyaeva & Konstantin Trusevich. | |
Borovichi | Eduard Alexeyev, Ekaterina Isakova, Natalia Putzyp & Vasili Rubin. | |
Bratsk | Sergey Gluzberg, Anastasia Spiritus & Yuriy Leiderman. | |
Bryansk | Rabbi Mendel Zaklos | Lev Linkov, Galina Komarova & Tatiana Roitman. |
Buinaksk | Rafik Pashaev & Karina Hudadatova. | |
Chebarkul | Boris Goslavsky | |
Cheboksary | Iosif Vinokur | |
Chelyabinsk | Rabbi Meir Kirsh | Abram Zhuk, Yosef Gotzkozik, Liza Zlutkina & Tatiana Bakalinskaya. |
Cherepovetz | Alexander Chernigov | |
Cherkessk | Vitaliy Milikovsky & Eleonora Erchenko. | |
Chita | Boris Eremin | |
Derbent | Rabbi Ovadiya Isakov | Meer Mishiev & Pangoda Shaulov . |
Dmitrovgrad | Grigoriy Liberman | |
Dubna | Aleksandr Ksenofontov | |
Dzerzhinsk | Rabbi Pinchas Klimash | Roman Zitzer |
Elista | Igor Kononov | |
Engels | Viktor Birbraer | |
Gelenjik | Evgeny Skvortzov & Georgy Darov | |
Goryachy Klyuch | Lev Shneiderman | |
Irkutsk | Rabbi Aaron Wagner | Vladimir Chazanov, Menachem Mendel Pikerski & Lena Feldman. |
Ivanovo | Ervin Kirshtein, Nadezhda Kochina & Roza Puhova. | |
Izhevsk | Yakov Maltzev, Mark Goldin & Larisa Shekhter. | |
Kaliningrad | Rabbi David Shvedik | Zinoviy Yakobson, Vyacheslav Kaminsky & Olga Kozlovskaya. |
Kaluga | Vladimir Feldman & Svetlana Pruzhanskaya. | |
Kamensk-Uralsky | Vladimir Chukhman | |
Kasimov | Mikhail Lipkovker, Yuri Kosarev & Vladimir Akutin. | |
Kazan | Rabbi Yitzchak Gorelik | Alexander Velder, Iosif Beskin, Ludmila Sheina, Svetlana Russ, Anna Velder, Petr Grachev & Elena Frenkel. |
Kemerovo | Ilya Bondarenko & Leonid Rukman. | |
Khabarovsk | Rabbi Yakov Snetkov | Mark Arshinsky, Sofia Levinzon, Roman Nazarenov, Stella Rud, Natalia Nedosekina, Natalia Nikolaeva, Inna Strelova, Yuli Ginsburg, V. Rud, Dina Aksman, Marina Ilyschenko, Emma Furland, Dmitriy Katzman, Eduard Mosin & A. Vainer. |
Kineshma | Vladimir Mladenov & Shlundina Ludmila. | |
Kirov | Boris Yevlinsky | |
Kislovodsk | Mihail Blayberg & Victoria Lanovaya. | |
Klintzy | Max Pinsky, Ludmila Savchenko, Sofia Strobinskaya, Lev Veberov & Iosif Azarov. | |
Komsomolsk-on-Amur | Viktor Ivanov & Grigoriy Leiserovich. | |
Korkino | Semen Nukhimzon | |
Korsakov | Leonid Mironov | |
Kostroma | Rabbi Nison Ruppo | Aharon Shtykov, Nyusya Goldshtein, Alexander Kochman, Ida Nechayeva, Larisa Shub, Galina Skarzhinskaya, Alla Ryzhanskaya, Sara Feyman, Mikhail Geidman, Yelena Tchaikovsky & Rafail Blumberg. |
Krasnodar | Rabbi Shneur Segal | Yuri Teitelbaum, Mariana Kisaeva & Yevgeny Alexeyenko. |
Krasnoturinsk | Vladimir Loginov | |
Krasnoyarsk | Rabbi Benyamin Wagner | Yuri Livshitz, David Gershevich, Boris Vagner, Seray Shenberger & Evgeny Krivitckiy. |
Kurgan | Gary Dobrusin & Anneta Kasianova. | |
Kursk | Rabbi Meir Hertzel | Boris Diner, Alla Diner & Alla Volokhova. |
Kuznetzk | Mikhail Trabinovich | |
Kyshtym | Semen Katz | |
Lipetsk | Naum Shaknyuk | |
Lubavichi | ||
Magadan | Nikolai Matlakhov & Boris Levin. | |
Magnitogorsk | Izya Kotlyar & Svetlana Kotlyar. | |
Mahachkala | Shimi Dibyayev & Boris Izmailov. | |
Maikop | Yakov Frenkel, Svetlana Sirenko & M. Vinnik. | |
Malakhovka | Rabbi Moshe Tamarin | Mikhail Glimcher & Borukh Fikh. |
Miass | Ilya Gershtein | |
Minusinsk | Daniil Reznitzky | |
Moscow | Rabbi Berel Lazar, Rabbi Boruch Kleinberg, Rabbi Shlomo Lediev, Rabbi Avraham Bekerman, Rabbi Avraham Elashvili, Rabbi Daniel Belyak, Rabbi Yosef Marzel, Rabbi Avraham Livshitz, Rabbi Yakov Fridman, Rabbi Yaakov Klein, Rabbi Nochum Leidiker, Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman, Rabbi Yosef Khersonsky, Rabbi Yosef Lipsker, Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Goldberg, David Mondshine, Mordechai Weisberg. | Simona Mishulovin, Uri Spasky, Aaron Golovchiner, Dr Shaya Shafit, Yakov Leviev, Natan Morgunovsky, Meyeris Zatcepinskas, Alexander Boroda, Sergey Sladkov, Mihail Schypak, Zeyev Kuravsky, Anatoli Norshtein, Miriam Barenbaum, Caroline Polani, Yosef Verzub, Oleg Listenr, Evgenia Nazarova, Boruch Gorin, Alexander Lakshin, Alexander Tsaluk, Golda Tamarina, Vladimir Podolny, Manahim Manahimov, Liya Lyubovnaya, Leah Ratner, Emma Kostyukovskaya, Galina Evtushenko, Vladimir Davidov, Yehuda Bronfman & Avraham Grozman. |
Mozdok | Valeri Inotaev & Tatiana Nazarova. | |
Murmansk | Ilya Raskin & Rudolf Dolgin. | |
Murom | Yakov Sverdlov | |
Mytischi | Rabbi Aaron Gurevich | Gennadiy Kureneez |
Naberezhnye Chelny | Yevgeniy Kogan | |
Nadym | Boris Kuperman | |
Nakhodka | Aron Ladizhensky & Galina Konovalova | |
Nalchik | Rabbi Levi Shabayev | Boris Izgiyaev, Rafail Babaev, V. Perelgut & Gersil Rubinov. |
Naryan-Mar | Valeri Kononov | |
Nevinnomyssk | Isak Bunimovich | |
Nizhnekamsk | Arnold Miller | |
Nizhny Novgorod | Rabbi Shimon Bergman & Rabbi Menachem Rabinovich. | Eduard Chaprak, Marina Pashton, Susanna Turaeva, Ekena Derechinskaya, Zhanna Vitebskaya, V. Yankov, I. Serebro, Dvora Fisher, Oleg Sharno. |
Nizhny Tagil | Yakov Raizman, Olga Chausovchkaya, Elena Shmakova, Svetlana Timofeeva & Anna Dubnova. | |
Norilsk | Mikhail Shusterman, Anna Suhinina & Sofia Gaznetskaya. | |
Novgorod Veliky | Rabbi Gershon Paley | Grigory Fainberg |
Novocherkassk | Alexander Stepanov, Boris Legran & Susanna Kulakova | |
Novokuibyshevsk | Aron Bergal | |
Novokuznetsk | Yuri Medovy | |
Novorossiyisk | Dmitry Bekker & L. Saraf. | |
Novosibirsk | Rabbi Zalman Zaklos | Semion Osherov, Yefim Zingel |
Novouralsk | Oleg Kornechug & Anatoliy Kandalov. | |
Novozybkov | Vladimir Reznikov & Svetlana Chichelanova. | |
Obninsk | Zakhar Ser | |
Omsk | Rabbi Osher Krichevsky | Leonid Khait, Ilya Edelshtein, S. Sosnitskaya, Sara Batushanskaya, Yana Shivelina, Yakov Birlyant, Roman Simakhov & Galina Vatrushkina. |
Orenburg | Rabbi Goel Mayers | Zinoviy Eidlitz, Igor Savilizon, Lyudmila Fokina & Svetlana Nudelman. |
Orsk | Boris Bruk | |
Oryol | Semion Livshitz, Igor Trusov, Evgenia Stemouhova, Ludmila Livshitz, Tatiana Tretiakova & Anna Krylova. | |
Ozersk | Anatoliy Feldman | |
Partizansk | Yevgeny Grunberg & Svetlana Khristenko. | |
Perm | Rabbi Zalman Deutch & Rabbi Boruch Kabarnovsky. | Aron Zismanov, Svetlana Baranova, Efraim Benyaminov, Igor Ternavskiy, Konstantin Dolganovsky & Ludmila Zakharova. |
Pervouralsk | Aleksandr Narbutovskikh | |
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | Sergey Kurbatov, Evgenia Latman & Felix Grinberg. | |
Petrozavodsk | Dmitry Tsvibel, Natalia Kuzmenko, Alexander Modylevskiy & Igor Plugatavenko. | |
Polevskoy | Mikhail Benkovsky & Bronislava Rovinskaya | |
Priozersk | Yakov Slobitker | |
Prokopyevsk | Sergey Senchurov | |
Pskov | Roman Kagan, Leonid Eiberman, Anna Yuryeva, Irina Konvershikova & Oleg Fedorov. | |
Pushkino | Michail Masluk & Roman Ragimov. | |
Revda | Boris Rebitzky & Olga Dryagina. | |
Roslavl | Viktor Goryachkin | |
Rostov-on-Don | Rabbi Chaim Fridman | Yuri Rubinov, Svetlana Kreneva, Ludmila Rubinova, Tamara Popova & Anna Knysh. |
Ryazan | Leonid Reznikov, Elena Shvalb, Mastbaum Mihail & Valeria Reznikova. | |
Rybinsk | Leonid Berkovsky & Irina Falevich. | |
S. Petersburg | Rabbi Menachem Mendel Pewzner, Rabbi Tzvi Pinski, Rabbi Meir Kozlovskiy & Rabbi Chaim Tolochinsky. | Mark Grubarg, Avrohom Arshinov, Valeri Stolov, Iosif Razran, Tamaz Sepiashvili, Barukh Finkelshtein, Masha Arshinova, Arina Sominsky & Regina Shmidt. |
Salavat | Grigory Yurovsky | |
Samara | Rabbi Shlomo Deutch | Mikhail Safronchik, Evgeniya Krasnitskaya, Maya Borzova, Svetlana Grishkina & Irina Fainberg. |
Sarapul | Anatoly Rusinov | |
Saratov | Rabbi Yakov Kubichek | Boris Berzon, Margarita Karlysheva & Mark Khosh. |
Sarov | Alexander Matushkin | |
Serov | Vladimir Ratnovsky | |
Severodvinsk | Mikhail Simkin, Olga Behter, Lia Popova-Furie & Yana Nortina. | |
Shakhty | Isaak Mindlin | |
Sharya | Oleg Vilensky | |
Smolensk | Rabbi Levi Mondshine | Zinovi Agranat, Marianna Volkomorova, Galina Tcurieva, Tatiana Petunina & Margarita Raiskina. |
Sochi | Rabbi Arye Edelkopf | Isaak Shvartzburd, Borislav Yegudin & Stas Liubransky. |
Spassk-Dalny | Lev Baskin & Lidia Baskina. | |
Sretensk | Alexander Yakobson & Viktor Yakobson | |
Stavropol | Efim Fainer & Vladimir Shif. | |
Sterlitamak | ||
Surazh | Mikhail Gusakov | |
Surgut | Igor Zhivotikov | |
Svetly Yar | Aron Gandelman, Natalia Evseeva & Inna Motornaya. | |
Syktyvkar | Leonid Zilberg & Olga Moiseevich. | |
Syzran | Lev Kushner | |
Taganrog | Tankha Oterstein & Olga Urshanskaya. | |
Tambov | Arkady Farba, Mikhail Kliot, Yaroslava Starostenko, Galina Mechkovskaya & Yuri Shpilberg. | |
Togliatti | Rabbi Meir Fisher | Alexander Nagelberg, Zoya Prischepova & Yana Zavaltovsky. |
Tomari | Vladimir Bystritzkiy | |
Tomsk | Rabbi Levi Kaminetsky | Yuriy Zelvensky & Baruch Romatsky. |
Troitzk | Shulya Shehtman & Elisaveta Shehtman. | |
Tuapse | Yakov Naruzhniy | |
Tula | Lev Raikhlin & Evgenia Raihlina. | |
Udomlya | Grigoriy Gringlaz | |
Ufa | Rabbi Dan Krichevsky | Semen Livshitz, Alevtina Yakimova, Igor Zaydenberg, Vadim Nesterov, Mark Skundin, Boris Brondz, Boris Fridlyand, Alevtina Yakimova, Semen Spivak, Klavdiya Kiseleva, Marina Kolabukhova, Raisa Rubashkina, Valentina Lukianova, Ella Senderovich & Shoshana Tzirelson. |
Uglegorsk | Grigoriy Krumer | |
Ukhta | Alexander Persidsky | |
Ulan-Ude | Vladimir Balandin, Evgeny Chistiakov, Nina Babenko & Vladimir Petushkeev. | |
Ulyanovsk | Rabbi Yosef Morozov | Mikhail Livshitz, M. Engavatyh & V. Chapanina. |
Unecha | Vladimir Bolotin | |
Ussuriysk | Leonid Kaplan | |
Velikie Luki | Alexander Kunitza, Anatoliy Marchenko, Anna Rehiashvili, Olga Ivanova & Margarita Simonovich. | |
Verkhnyaya Pyshma | Boris Kaufman | |
Vladikavkaz | Mark Petrushansky, Alexander Kravetz & Natalia Karlova. | |
Vladimir | Lev Shamaev | |
Vladivostok | Rabbi Yisroel Silberstein | Gregory Klebanov & Vladimir Yanklevich. |
Volgograd | Rabbi Zalman Yoffe | Erlich Aronov, Valentina Grimalovskaya, Yelizaveta Bulgacheva, Yelena Abramova, Yelena Nikitina, Irina Karnakova, Vera Kuznetsova, Inna Chizhikova, Ludmila Tolstykh, Yelizaveta Bulgacheva , Yuri Karnakov, Olga Khoroshilova & Miriam Maximova. |
Vologda | Semen Nakhmanovich | |
Volzhsky | Gary Tarlovsky & Sofia Kotliar. | |
Vorkuta | Vitaliy Velikovsky & Grigoriy Sushansky. | |
Voronezh | Stanislav Nezhelsky | |
Vyazma | Vladimir Krepkanovich & Lidia Chinareva. | |
Vyborg | Lev Kreimer, Abel Shlozberg & Olga Pozdniakova. | |
Yakutsk | Alexander Gommershtadt & Sara Lifshitz. | |
Yekaterinburg | Rabbi Zelig Ashkenazi | Yakov Soskin, Elvira Babich, Yulia Uster, Vladimir Raputov, Sergey Usov, Anna Savelyeva, Alexander Savelyev, Yaffa Barkan, Yekaterina Lapinskaya, Ludmila Gitelman, Isaak Soskin, Boris Weisberg & Irina Tsyvyanova. |
Yeletz | Igor Levin | |
Yoshkar-Ola | Mark Aron & Vil Khayet. | |
Yurga | Mikhail Kaplan, V. Makarovskiy & Svetlana Kaplan. | |
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk | Veneslav Kotman | |
Zadonsk | Alexander Gomenyuk | |
Zelenograd | Yuri Yuranov | |
Zhukovsky | Efim Shoikhet | |
Zlatoust | Ilya Yudovich, Evdokia Krohina & Svetlana Biketova. | |