Once a vibrant center of Torah study, Brest saw its 20,000 Jews eradicated in the Holocaust. Now, its shattered gravestones get a new purpose after gathering dust for decades

Immigration Ministry will maintain fast-tracked program for Ukrainians and special cases, but says it wants to focus on absorbing the massive wave of people who arrived last year

With limited Hebrew and traumas from war, over 2,600 refugee children with little to no Hebrew prepare to face their next challenge: the Israeli education system

Security forces shot dead Andrei Zeltzer, a 31-year-old programmer, during a raid at his home in Minsk

Holocaust awareness organization raises money to pay for renovated apartments for Righteous Among the Nations living in abject poverty

Swastika and SS bolts daubed on house of worship in city of Gomel; police have no suspects in rare incident

87-year-old Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who survived WWII hiding in the Urals and later became a sharpshooter for her country's military: 'This symbol unites our whole society'

Shmuel Yefimovich Plavnik, better known by his pen name Zmitrok Byaduli, died in Khazakstan in 1941; his remains were repatriated to Belarus 79 years later

As mass protests build against Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko, Jewish communal organizations maintain careful policy of political neutrality

As protests rock Minsk following election widely seen as rigged, authorities mete out a harsh response, including against Jews, whether they're involved in demonstrations or not