Although in the last 20 years significant results in Hebrew education were achieved, the part of the Jewish population with access to quality services in this field remains extremely mall. There is also a very small percentage of Jews interested in receiving this kind of services. In order to break this tendency and to make the “symbol of belonging to the Jewish world” become familiar to most Jews, local and Israeli organizations, both professional and public, must take coordinated proactive measures.

The studies undertaken within the framework of the Khazar Project in the southern part of the Eastern Europe, beginning in 2000, were triggered at the time of the rebirth of the Jewish education system in the new Russia.

Over the last twenty years, the Jewish community of Russia, which plays a significant role in the socio-political life of the country, has come a long way from underground existence to the most dynamically developing Jewish communities of the world.

May, 2009 we reached an emblematic date in the recent Jewish history – the twenty years anniversary of the All-Union Round Table on the problems of Soviet Jewry.

The New York newspaper “My Zdyes”(We Are Here) has recently published an extensive analytical report on the matter, prepared by a group of Israeli and Russian experts speaking on condition of anonymity, ordered by Moscow entrepreneurs who are deeply involved in Jewish philanthropic activities.

Lack of an intellectual elite, of a tradition of learning and interpreting texts, and of a common cultural canon, relevant to the given place and time, leads to atrophy of the cultural languages and therefore to loss of values and blurring of moral and ethical boundaries.

The peculiarities of the Holocaust in the Rumanian-occupied zone are the probable main topic for historical anti-Semitic statements in Moldova.

The Jewish community has three pillars to stand on: prayer in synagogues, Torah studies, and burial according to Jewish customs.

Russian-speaking Jewish communities nowadays consist of those who we call “Russian Jews”- they are the Jews of the USSR.