Soviet Jewry
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
Yom Kippur War: How the Book of Isaiah spurred world Jewry to back Israel, refusniks in 1973
25 ViZionaries: Ilan Sinelnikov - No. 25
Isi Leibler: Saving Soviet Jews and helping Israeli-Asian ties
His memories span almost a century that took the Jewish story from Eastern Europe to Antwerp, Melbourne and then to Jerusalem, through the struggles he fought for Jews in the Soviet Union and Israel.
For former Soviet Union Jews, NYE always involves a Christmas-style tree
“But we’re Jewish, so why do we have a Christmas tree?” I recall thinking.
George Blake, Jewish British spy for Soviet Union, dies in Moscow at 98
He was recruited to the intelligence community and later offered to spy for the Soviet Union, betraying hundreds of agents until his capture in 1960.
Len Khodorkovsky: The State Department's secret weapon
Arriving in America from the Soviet Union, Len Khodorkovsky never imagined he’d one day be designing memes for the president.
Remembering the emigration of Soviet Jewry - opinion
Today, America is home to 750,000 Russian-speaking Jewish citizens, one tenth of the Jewish population of the United States.
‘Ethnicity, not religion, focus of post-Soviet Jewish identity’ – study
“We are quite confident that the process of ethnic and cultural assimilation of former Soviet Union Jews and their families is reversible.”
Israeli gov't looking to harness tech impact of Russian-speaking Jews
Limmud Labs is designed to find young people like Brin, and “empower them to be active in their local and greater Jewish communities,” Omer Yankelevich, Israel’s minister of Diaspora Affairs said
Natan Sharansky’s memoirs are a made-in-Jerusalem story
In freedom, serving in Israel’s cabinet and at the Jewish Agency, Sharansky remained a perpetual dissident.
The meeting of Kabbalah and science
A discussion with Eduard Shyfrin, PhD.
If you seek his monument, look around – in memory of Ilia Salita
Mourning the loss of Ilia Salita, who helped strengthen the Jewish identity of Russian-speaking Jews.
