Limmud FSU 2007 – Moscow Conference 
October 18-21, 2007

• The conference attracted approximately 750 people from across the countries of the FSU; about 150 had participated in prior Limmud events, and many young people participated in Taglit-birthright israel, belonged to local Jewish organizations or were affiliated with one of the 27 Hillels in the FSU; and roughly 250 where not affiliated.
• Participants ranged in age from 6 months to 78 years; 70% of the participants were aged 18-40 years, including 72 families 16 with children.
• Representation included participants and presenters from Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Khabarovsk, Kazan, Volgograd, Penza, Smolensk, Pyatigorsk, Tver, Taganrog, and Ryazan); Ukraine (Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Simferopol, Dnepropetrovsk, Sevastopol, Lugansk, Krivoy Rog, Nikolaev, Lvov, Donetsk, Khmelnitskiy, Chernigov, Bershad, and) Uzhgorod; Byelorussia; Georgia; Kazakhstan; Moldova; Germany, Israel; the United Kingdom; and the United States.
• Limmud FSU 2007 assembled an impressive roster of 130 presenters: in addition to many local presenters from various cultural, historical, and educational organizations, the roster included rabbis from all streams of Judaism, Judaic scholars, noted philanthropists, journalists, and international organizational leadership.
• Major themes of the 160 sessions, dialogues and discussions, included reinforcing Jewish life within the social and cultural structural norms of FSU countries; understanding Israel, i.e., history and present concerns; Holocaust remembrance, and learning about the history of the Russian Jewish people, as well as discussing the place of Russian Jewry in today’s global Jewish world.
• Volunteers, including the FSU Organizing Committee, numbered 97; the Conference also attracted 24 new volunteer committee members from a range of FSU countries.
• Generous financial resource underwriting from more than 25 foundations and individuals and organization, contributed roughly $1.2 million ensured the success of the Moscow Conference.