USSR

For some Jews, coming to America as a Jewish refugee still isn't enough to count - opinion

Long gone are the Soviet documents that classified my father’s nationality as “Jew.” In America, I found another kind of othering - this time within my own community.

The author's family poses for a portrait in Bayramaly, Turkmenistan, then part of the Soviet Union, in 1983. From left to right, her paternal grandmother, Rachel; her mother’s sister, Fatima, with Radmilla on her lap; her mother, Lyudmila; and her father, Ribi Amnun,
 El Al Flight 402 - The Lockheed Constellation registered as 4X-AKC, pictured here in 1950.

On this day: Communist Bulgaria downs El Al flight 402, killing all 58 people onboard

 FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.

Protests shake Iran: The US must choose its next move wisely - opinion

SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review


My grandfather's USSR experience is mimicked in modern times - opinion

He faced the same rhetoric we do now on campus.

 A SUPPORTER of the Russian Communist Party stands next to a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, during a May Day rally in Moscow last year.

75 years old is a dangerous age for Israel - opinion

Israel has entered its greatest crisis after three generations. This happened to the USSR, Turkey, India and China – what happened to them, and can Israel survive?

 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses the ‘Jerusalem Post’ conference at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, last week. Herzog says he is worried whether the state will reach 80 years.

Purim 1953 in the USSR: When Joseph Stalin had his fatal stroke

Joseph Stalin had a stroke and collapsed in his dacha on Purim, March 1, 1953, possibly assisted by someone in his inner circle. He died four days later.

 A photograph of Stalin taken in 1937.

Russia replacing armor losses with 1960s Soviet tanks -UK intel

Russian tank divisions are being provided with old T-62 main battle tanks, including units in the 1st Guards Tank Army, which the UK described as supposedly being "Russia's premier tank force."

 A tank of pro-Russian troops drives along a road near burnt-out residential buildings in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine April 5, 2022.

From Haman to Stalin: The fate of Jews in the USSR - opinion

Had Stalin lived longer, he might have well sent Jews into internal exile.

 A SUPPORTER of the Russian Communist Party stands next to a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, during a May Day rally in Moscow last year.

Jerusalem highlights March 3–9

What's new to do in Israel's capital?

 DMITRY YABLONSKY.

New Israeli exhibit gives Soviet artist Anatoly Kaplan overdue salute

The Enchanted Artist is one of the most expansive and adventurous art exhibitions that Beit Avi Chai has ever produced.

 THE DICHOTOMIC nature of Kaplan’s life in the USSR comes across in ‘Interior.’

Accidental Czar: Russia's Putin is a real-life comic-book villain - review

Accidental Czar packs its punch by sticking to the facts as we see how Russia's Vladimir Putin went from chasing rats to threatening world peace.

 RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER Vladimir Putin dines at Cheval Blanc outside Moscow.

What the history of the Jews of the USSR teaches us

The history of the Jews of the USSR is a universal lesson that in a country where the law is distorted, a citizen has nothing to protect himself from the state.

 A group of Hassidic jews stand for a picture in Red Square with a poster as they take part in the Moshiach parade in honour of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on August 16

'Here We Are All Jews': How Western Jews worked to free Soviet Jewry - review

Anyone even remotely involved in the struggle for Soviet Jewry will find something in his book Here We Are All Jews with which they can identify or which will stir a memory.

 LIKUD LEADER Ariel Sharon speaks to Russian-Israeli immigrants from the former Soviet Union, in Ashkelon, 2001.