In partnership with Limmud FSU, 33 Fellows from 6 countries in the FSU gathered together for a Regional NGF to discuss the future of Jewish communal life in the FSU.

During an intensive three days, the young participants, Jewish professionals and lay leaders, confronted and debated issues and questions relevant to their own communities and to future Jewish identity and Jewish community in the FSU.

The faculty for this Regional NGF included several leading international scholars, as well as scholars from the local communities. There were presentations from amongst others: Prof. Moshe Halbertal, Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Dr. Anna Shternshis, Professor of Yiddish Studies at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Dmitry Maryasis, Director-General of the Russia-Israel Business Council. Fellows self-elected into text and cultural workshops run by Rabbi Grisha Abramovich, the Chief Rabbi of the Religious Union for Progressive Judaism in Belarus, Yulya Patrakova, Teacher, Jewish Educator, Art & Literature Historian, and Dr. Shternshis.