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
Grapevine December 25, 2024: The key priority
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.
How Israel risks distancing the Russian Jewish community - opinion
After years of harmful rhetoric, Israel risks losing some major supporters in Russian Jewish businessmen.
'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present
Traversing time and geography through literature.
Remarkable Soviet Jewish women and their struggle for freedom
Not free to live as Jews, these women risked their lives to escape the Soviet Union, where they faced imprisonment for engaging in Zionist activity
Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion
Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.
What historical events occurred due to hijacking of Soviet Plane in 1970?
As history has shown, the position of informal organizations actually met the interests of the whole world.
'The Dissident': A tale of a Jewish refusenik's deal with the KGB - review
The Dissident illuminates the human rights movement and the struggle of Soviet Jews to get permission to move to Israel,
'The History of Birobidzhan': The Jewish land on the Russia-China border - review
The history of Brobidzhan, a town established in the Soviet Union almost 100 years ago, reminds us of the many other ideological rivals to a Hebrew republic in the Land of Israel.
The Jewish story behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained
“To the outside world, he was always known as a German Jew, and he always insisted that he was neither German nor Jewish,” said author Ray Monk.
Estonia set to become first ex-Soviet state to back gay marriage
A vote is due early next week. LGBTQ+ activists hope Estonia's parliament will back a government bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry and win the same rights as heterosexual couples
