Soviet Jewry

Soviet Jewry

Grapevine: Happy birthday, prisoner of Zion!

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Israelis with Soviet roots unite in solidarity in Tel Aviv amid the war

Limmud FSU aims to help Jews with roots from the former Soviet republics preserve their religious identity and unique traditions.

By LARRY LUXNER/JTA
15/01/2025

The Moshe Castel Museum showcases paintings by Yosef Ostrovsky

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.

By ALEK D. EPSTEIN
04/01/2025

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
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