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For children of Russian immigrants, mainstream Jewish community remains elusive

Participants at the Feb. 12-14 Mitbachon weekend in San Rafael, Calif., explored their Jewish identities using theater and other creative arts. (Rozana Saveliev / Jewish Agency)

Eighty young professionals from New York and the San Francisco Bay area took part in a weekend leadership and identity-building seminar for Russian-speaking Jews as part of an increased effort to help immigrants from the former Soviet Union find a place in the wider American Jewish community. Read more »

Fishing for Jews in Russia's muddy waters

Exactly how many Jews are there in Russia? Depends on whom you ask and how you count them. Read more » For children of Russian immigrants, mainstream Jewish community remains elusive Participants at the Feb. 12-14 Mitbachon weekend in San Rafael, Calif., explored their Jewish identities using theater and other creative arts. (Rozana Saveliev / Jewish Agency) Eighty young professionals from New York and the San Francisco Bay area took part in a weekend leadership and identity-building seminar for Russian-speaking Jews as part of an increased effort to help immigrants from the former Soviet Union find a place in the wider American Jewish community. Read more » Fishing for Jews in Russia's muddy waters Exactly how many Jews are there in Russia? Depends on whom you ask and how you count them. Read more » Who says 'Not every day is Purim'? When it comes to life in Israel, there's a steady stream of reasons to laugh year-round. Just open the papers on any given day to check out what passes for normalcy in the Jewish state. Read more » Israel under the radar Braces in the mikvah, the Gap in Tel Aviv, Israel adapting "The Office." Read more » Editors' Picks Idea # 25: Hold Jewish communal leaders accountable for gender equity (The Sisterhood) Rabbi Joanna Samuels, director of strategic initiatives at Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community, explains how the community can hold its leadership accountable for gender equity within Jewish organizations. Among other action-steps, Samuels suggests that organizations conduct internal salary audits and publicize the results -- and then track their progress -- on a new watchdog Web site. Tale of three Toms (L.A. Times, Contentions) Tom Campbell, a former Palo Alto-area congressman, hopes to be the Republican pick in this year's attempt to unseat Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). But does he have an Israel problem? Talking intermarriage at JTS (N.Y. Jewish Week) Julie Wiener reports that a recent workshop at the Jewish Theological Seminary is the latest sign of a softening approach in the Conservative movement to intermarried families. Learn long and prosper (Washington Jewish Week) A synagogue in Herndon, Va., is turning to "Star Trek" to boldly explore Jewish texts. Haredi-disguised bandits: The video (N.Y. Post) Watch surveillance video of the diamond heist carried out by two robbers disguised as ultra-Orthodox Jews Breaking News Israeli and U.S. officials held strategic talks over Iran's nuclear threat and Middle East peace. Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to record levels, according to B'nai Brith Canada's annual audit. A Jewish girls' high school basketball team forfeited its game at the Washington state tournament due to the Fast of Esther. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Arab nations will usher in a new Middle East "without Zionists and without colonialists." Palestinian riots continued in Hebron five days after the city's Cave of the Patriarchs was designated an Israeli national heritage site. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asserted his innocence at the start of his trial on corruption charges. Delaware's first Jewish governor hung a mezuzah at the governor's mansion in Dover. Several rare early American Jewish books will be auctioned in New York. Another 15 suspects were identified in the assassination of a Hamas official, Dubai police announced. Australia's foreign minister summoned Israel's ambassador over three Australian passports used in the assassination of a senior Hamas official. A bill that would allow civil marriage in Israel to couples who could not be married by the rabbinate failed by a large margin in its initial reading. Three Lebanese were indicted on charges of spying for Israel. Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has asked to be removed as a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize.