In the summer of 1991, with the walls of the Kremlin and Lenin's tomb behind them, campers at Gan Israel Moscow call out the 12 “pesukim” (Torah passages). The Soviet Union officially disintegrated days later.
CGI Russia: 25 Years of Historic Transformation
High on a flagpole some 70 kilometers west of Moscow, the green-and-white banner of Camp Gan Israel flutters in the breeze. Now in the midst of its 25th year, Gan Israel Moscow—a part of the Chabad-Lubavitch worldwide network of Jewish summer camps—draws more than 300 children for separate boys’ and girls’ sessions of overnight camp.
