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Jan 25, 2018, 8:42 PM

When Art Shocks: Disturbing is Good

On January 10th, a solo exhibition by Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi opened at the Israel Museum. Ms. Cherkassky-Nnadi depicts daily life in the Soviet Union and in Israel in the early nineties. She relates the reality lived by Soviet Jews in...

Dec 25, 2017, 12:45 PM

Spreading the Light, Fighting the Darkness

The holiday of Hanukkah falls on the darkest time of the year. Jews worldwide light a candle on the first night, and add another one on every evening of the eight-day holiday, so that by the last night the...

Jul 6, 2017, 11:18 AM

Not Done Yet in Ukraine

Last week I travelled to Uzhgorod, Ukraine to participate in an annual seminar of educators who work for Midreshet Yerushalayim Ukraine, which has been funded and supported by the Schechter Institutes in Jerusalem since 1990. Uzhgorod has once been home...

Jun 8, 2014, 10:18 PM

My Grandmother Rita

My grandmother Rita (Revekka) Zhuravel née Birzh, daughter of Anna (Nechome Itke) and Max, was laid to rest in Moscow on Friday afternoon on June 6, 2014. She lived a life defined by the relentless history of the 20th century. The...

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Anya Zhuravel Segal is Director of Development at The Schechter Institutes, Inc. based in Jerusalem.