On 24 Teves, the Alter Rebbe's Yom Hilula, Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar paid a special visit to the home of the Gerrer ...

Approximately 4,000 Jews attended Moscow’s first “Festival of Judaism” which organizers planned as a celebration of the 50th birthday of Chief Russian Rabbi Berel Lazar. The festival was held on June ...

Berel Lazar, who is widely viewed as close to President Vladimir Putin, called Sergei Lavrov’s remarks “ill worded” and “shocking.” (JTA) — Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar has criticized remarks by ...

Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar. (Mikhail Tereshchenko/Zuma Press) Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar called on Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to apologize for his recent remarks about Jews, neo-Nazis ...

WILLIAMSBURG — RUSSIA’S CHIEF RABBI, RABBI BEREL LAZAR, VISITED THE SATMAR REBBE, Horav Zalmen Leib, during his current trip to the United States. The two religious leaders spent over an hour ...

BERGEN BEACH — AS PART OF CHABAD’S ANNUAL KINUS HASHLUCHIM gathering, the Chief Rabbi of the Muscovite State, Rabbi Berel Lazar, visited Bergen Beach’s Russian-speaking community at the request of his ...

A Russian chief rabbi is slated to lead a delegation of 500 young Jews to the Hyper Cacher supermarket near Paris where four Jewish shoppers were murdered. The delegation of 18- to 28-year-olds from ...

In an unusual move, a chief rabbi of Russia has accused a senior defense official of antisemitic hate speech in connection with the war in Ukraine, and a spokesperson for the rabbi warned of the onset ...

Russia's Jewish community, the world's fourth largest, is in the midst of a vicious, public power struggle with deep implications for the future of Russia's religious Jews and possible connections to ...