New Generation Of Russians Now Making Its Mark
On a recent Friday evening, Nadya Chelnokova, a twentysomething native of the former Soviet Union who now lives in San Francisco, joined a handful of fellow émigrés at a conference center near the Princeton University campus for a worship service titled Kabbalat Shabbat for “chainiki,” a slang Russian expression for beginners.
Over the next three days Chelnokova and some 600 other people, mostly from the New York area, with roots in the former Soviet Union, attended a series of lectures and workshops and social events during Limmud FSU, part of the international network of intensive, pluralistic Jewish learning retreats around the world.
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