Soviet Jewry

Soviet Jewry

Grapevine December 25, 2024: The key priority

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

How Israel risks distancing the Russian Jewish community

After years of harmful rhetoric, Israel risks losing some major supporters in Russian Jewish businessmen.

By SHLOMO NEEMAN
10/10/2024
 UKRAINIAN WAR prisoner, guarded by serviceman of the separatist Donetsk

'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present

Traversing time and geography through literature.

By PAUL GOLDBERG
23/06/2024

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.

28/12/2023

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.

By JOSEPH MENDELVICH
03/11/2023

'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,

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER
09/09/2023

'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.

By COLIN SHINDLER
18/08/2023

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.

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA , ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
20/07/2023
Tartu, Estonia.

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

By REUTERS
14/06/2023
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