From Berlin and Moscow to Brooklyn and Toronto – Russian-speaking Jews are an important and fascinating part of the history and future of the Jewish people across the world and Genesis Philanthropy Group aims to advance Jewish engagement into the 21st century | ynetnews

Several years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, when David Rozenson first returned to his hometown of Leningrad, (which he left for the United States as a child), to train teachers for Judaism programs, he was astonished by the passion of his students for everything Jewish, after the Soviet regime sought for decades to erase every trace of Jewish education. „I will never forget the notebooks they filled out in handwriting, their passion for learning Hebrew, for reading poetry. It was not just a flame, it was a roaring fire,“ he remembers.