Soviet Jewry
Fighting for belonging: A Jewish boxer's extraordinary journey through poverty, faith, and tragedy
Within a decade, Yuri Foreman became a world champion, representing a country where he had once struggled to feel accepted and carving out a place in the long history of Jewish boxing.
Former Prisoners of Zion, aliyah activists, discuss plans for new Soviet Jewry heritage center
85 years later: Babyn Yar and the fight against deliberate erasure - opinion
Five Jewish couples marry in Brazil in front of 900 young Jews from former Soviet Union
Iran’s 400% espionage surge in Israel: Rising threats and societal vulnerabilities - opinion
Israeli security foils numerous Iranian spying attempts, but intelligence damage exposes a growing national vulnerability.
New immigrant pharmacists face discrimination, lack of gov't support despite professional shortage
Mazarsky's comments follow the state's reluctance to accept over 170 qualified pharmacists who are intending to make aliyah in the coming year and have opened files with the Jewish Agency.
'To succeed as a Jew is to survive,' Natan Sharansky tells 'Post' - interview
Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, author, and former Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency. He was born in 1948 in what is now Donetsk, Ukraine, to a Jewish family
'World Enemy No. 1': Hitler, Stalin, and the crime of being Jewish - review
Hundreds of Jewish Communists who had escaped to the USSR were handed over by the Soviets to the Nazis at the border crossing of Brest-Litovsk.
Dnipro chief rabbi: Joy in being Jewish restored post-Soviet Dnipro Jewry
When Kaminetsky arrived in the Closed City in 1990, the years of pogroms, Nazi conquest, and Soviet oppression had reduced almost fifty synagogues to one small house of worship.
Herzog: Israel must do more for immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
The event, a salute to FJC’s network of schools, synagogues, and youth programs across the former Soviet space, featured personal testimony illustrating the stakes for families uprooted by conflict.
Repatriation (Aliyah): From Soviet Underground to a Conflict-Free Double Loyalty
On Aliyah Day, Israel remembers the men and women who paved the way for national revival
Yom Kippur War: How the Book of Isaiah spurred world Jewry to back Israel, refusniks in 1973
The haftarah for Yom Kippur begins with these action-filled words of Isaiah. We must act – we must cut the road through – it is up to us to clear the way for ami – My people – God’s people.
25 ViZionaries: Ilan Sinelnikov - No. 25
Founded a grassroots movement to provide a confident pro-Israel voice on college campuses
Her Jewish grandfather’s shame inspired a prize-winning novel
Sasha Vasilyuk's debut novel, “Your Presence Is Mandatory,” won the $100,000 prize for a story inspired by her father’s father, a Jewish soldier in the Red Army.
