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Post-Soviet Jewry on the Cusp of Its Third Decade – Part 2

May 25, 2011 | Dr. Betsy Gidwitz

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee continues to do essential work in the post-Soviet states, but financial distress has caused the organization to sharply curtail its welfare services to vulnerable Jewish population groups. The cutbacks are due as much to decisions by North American Jewish federations to reduce subventions to international programs before the onset of the current financial crisis as to the crisis itself.

Post-Soviet Jewry on the Cusp of Its Third Decade – Part 1

May 25, 2007 | Dr. Betsy Gidwitz

Demographically, post-Soviet Jewry has seen an overall decline resulting from assimilation, intermarriage, low fertility, high mortality, and emigration of younger age cohorts. Some demographers believe that less than 500,000 Jews remain in the post-Soviet states. An intermarriage rate that some view as exceeding 80 percent creates complex situations for those Jewish groups that prefer to confine their programs to halachically Jewish individuals

Welfare Policy and Social Security in Post-Communist Jewish Communities: The Case of Ukraine

April 30, 2002 | Josef Zissels

The development and functioning of the welfare system in Ukraine is an important condition for Jewish communal survival in post-Soviet countries. Social welfare must be based on demographics and the needs of local communities. The Joint as well as local Jewish communities must work together in order to solve current problems, especially in the area of financing the various projects. This essay outlines the problems currently facing the Jewish social welfare organizations in Ukraine and offers some solutions.

Post-Soviet Jewry at Mid-Decade Part II

March 1, 1995