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While the West gets ready for visits from Santa Claus, Russians will be queuing up to see ?Ded Moroz?, or Father Frost. In one northern town, however, he?s

Who else is coming down the chimney this year?

Yakutsk, Russia, is the world's coldest city (Credit: VisitYakutia.com) With a series of storms unleashing their fury across the United States this week — all the way from California to New York — many Americans are experiencing the full wrath of the winter season. Freezing as the temperatures may seem, they are balmy compared to those in Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutia, or the Sakha Republic, in Russia. The residents of this remote Siberian city have been enduring average temperatures of below -30°F (-34°C) since December 8, 2020, with the mercury dipping as low as -59° F (-50.6 °C)...

Metropolitan Veniamin Metropolitan Veniamin Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus There is a lot that we can accomplish when we stand united, Metropolitan Veniamin of Minsk and Zaslavl, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, told reporters on 11 January. “When united we can accomplish a lot. Our history teaches us this. When there are some divisions, opposing views, we begin to stumble. Therefore, it is important that we have a unifying idea based on the spiritual traditions of our people, willingness to settle disputes in peace, love, mutual understanding, respec...

12,826 shares Russian solders, left, take pictures with a tree decorated for Christmas and New Year celebrations in Moscow, Russia, December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) JTA — Growing up in metro Detroit, I used to watch my Jewish mother, who immigrated from Riga, Latvia, decorate a tree in our living room each December. “But we’re Jewish, so why do we have a Christmas tree?” I recall thinking. While I didn’t understand the tradition at first, I grew to understand it over time. It wasn’t about assimilation, and it wasn’t even a Christmas tree: It was a yolka, a secu...