USSR

In addition to being a consummate portraitist, Yosef Ostrovsky was also an extremely rare example of a Soviet citizen who became a quintessentially Jewish painter.

The director of Collective Phenomena, Semion Aleksandrovskiy, shared a little of this complex history via his own family story.

As the 50th anniversary of Nixon's Middle East tour approaches, the strategic lessons from his 1973 diplomacy reveal crucial insights for today's US-Israel relations and regional security.

The sane majority of Israel can’t do too much to topple Benjamin Netanyahu and the messianic, catastrophic crazies who are hurtling us into the void.

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

“All of America’s enemies in the region are consulting and getting closer, and the day may come when they join the war together, and turn America into a thing of the past,” the Hamas official said.

As history has shown, the position of informal organizations actually met the interests of the whole world.

Despite ruling Russia for nearly a quarter of a century, Putin has not learned a thing and has not transformed himself into a statesman. He remains the same KGB guard dog.

The Dissident illuminates the human rights movement and the struggle of Soviet Jews to get permission to move to Israel,

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.

Ira Eduardovna, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (then part of the former Soviet Union), is an accomplished Israeli artist who has won numerous awards and held exhibitions in the US, Israel, and Europe.