At the inauguration ceremony for the new Governor of Chernigov Region, Vladimir Khomenko, leaders of the local Jewish community attended and extended their congratulations on this occasion.
The German foreign ministry will give $3 million over the next four years to the Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History, to allow the groups to catalog new historical information about survivor refugees from Nazi Germany.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday night warned of Hizbullah's alarming military capabilities, and appeared to give an official Washington confirmation that Syria had indeed provided the guerrilla group with Scud missiles.
The presentation of Isaak Grinberg’s book "Jews in Alma-Ata" took place in the City Children’s Library with the participation of the Republican Jewish Library. The second edition of the research of the Jewish history in Kazakhstan was published at the end of 2009 under support of the Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan and Mitsva Association.