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

On this day in 1955, Bulgarian MiG fighters brought down El Al Flight 402, killing all 58 people aboard and setting off a Cold War dispute over responsibility and justice.

|ByALEX WINSTON
El Al Flight 402 - The Lockheed Constellation registered as 4X-AKC, pictured here in 1950.
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

Tehran’s streets erupt with defiance. Will Washington support change or repeat past mistakes with Iran’s regime?

|ByYONI MICHANIE
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

Hitler and his minions combined hatred of Jews as racial aliens polluting German culture with a crusade against 'Judeo-Bolshevism,' allegedly poised to spread Soviet-style Communism across the world

|ByGLENN C. ALTSCHULER
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism

The story of the Soviet leader’s time in power, his policies against Jews, and his relationship with Israel and Zionism

|ByALEX WINSTON

Passion and Judaism on parade in St. Petersburg

The Iron Curtain has long parted as hundreds of involved Jews descend on Russia’s cultural capital for the Limmud FSU festival.

APRIL 4, 2019ByERICA SCHACHNE
A joyous havdala with Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler (left) taking part

Shedding light on the ‘silenced’ Holocaust

These interactions give the participants the impression of belonging to the greater Israeli society and culture, making successful absorption in Israel easier.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019ByALAN ROSENBAUM
(LEFT TO right) Genesis Philanthropy Group Vice President for Community Relations, Dorit Golender; former defense minister Avigdor Liberman; former immigrant absorption Minister Sofa Landver; Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein; Knesset director general Albert Sakharovich; and MK Tali Ploskov (far right)