Famous Russian Jews

Anti-Putin businessman’s apparent suicide to be investigated by DC police

Several Russian business executives have died of suspicious circumstances amid the onset of the Russian-Ukrainian War. 

 Dan Rapoport (18 September 2014).
Until sanctions were imposed on him, Viktor Vekselberg consistently made it to the Forbes’ top 10, with the exclusion of 2008 to 2010, unfavorable years for metal manufacturers. In 2020, he placed 12th on the list with his fortune of $10.5 billion

Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg on his charity projects - interview

Whatsapp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum

Israeli gov't looking to harness tech impact of Russian-speaking Jews

Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center

Building a state-of-the art cardiac rehab institute


Books: 'Open Up the Iron Door'

Rabbi Avi Weiss tells the story of the struggle for Soviet Jewry from an insider’s perspective.

Rabbi Avi Weiss (center) during a memorial service last year near the United Nations headquarters for Eyal Yifrach, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel.

Remembering Vladimir Slepak, a modern-day Moses

Slepack, realizing there was no future for Jews in the communist Soviet Union, spent years planning his exit, aliya.

Vladimir Slepak.

Nemtsov murder reminds Russian Jews of lingering anti-Semitism

“His murder is the low point in a process that started about two years ago which has left the Jewish intelligentsia and its milieu feeling more uneasy than ever before in post-communist Russia.”

Opposition leader Boris Nemstsov

Letters: January 15, 2015

Lesovoy’s own story is a miracle; Only someone like him can give over the wonder and miracle of Israel to Russians, who can contribute so much of their talents and abilities to the State of Israel.

Letters

A critique from the past

In 1907 Polish journalist, critic, poet and essayist David Frishman criticized the Russian government for ignoring unrest in Odessa, translated here for the first time from Yiddish.

Child victims of a pogrom carried out under the inspiration of Simon Petlura in Ukraine in 1919.