Haaretz reports: Representatives of Jewish communities from all over the former USSR will come together next weekend for the first time in history in a mass event sponsored by “Limmud,” a Jewish education organization. The pluralist event will involve hundreds of classes, lectures and workshops on Jewish issues. 

Representatives from all of the local and international Jewish organizations operating in the former Soviet Union, including rabbis from different streams of Judaism, will meet at the event.

Different prayer rooms will host prayers for reform Jews and Chabad Jews, among other streams..

More than 700 participants are expected take part in the event, which will target the youngest generations of the local Jewish communities.

Not all of the organizations active in Russia agreed at first to cooperate, but 30 organizations have agreed to take part, including the Joint, the Jewish Agency, Chabad, the World Jewish Congress and Birthright.