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We’re Jews, We’re Not White, We Define Ourselves

Karen Lehrman Bloch March 27, 2019

Anna Shternshis: A Grammy Nomination for ‘Yiddish Glory’

Steven Mirkin December 19, 2018

‘Non-Jewish’ Jews endure challenges living in Israel

Dina Kraft January 4, 2008

In Israel, the \”non-Jewish Jews,\” as some Israelis call them, are everywhere. They drive buses, teach university classes, patrol in army jeeps and follow the latest Israeli reality TV shows as avidly as their Jewish counterparts. For these people — mostly immigrants from the former Soviet Union who are not Jews according to Israeli law — the question of where they fit into the Jewish state remains unanswered nearly two decades after they began coming to Israel.

Russia Returns 16 Long-Sought Books

Lev Krichevsky December 26, 2002

Earlier this month, a group of Lubavitch Jews gathered in a downtown Moscow synagogue to welcome the 16 books that were returned to the movement from the Russian State Library, formerly known as the Lenin Library, where the collection has been held for the last 80 years.

The New Melones Murders

Si Frumkin March 28, 2002

The New Melones Lake, a reservoir near the city of Modesto, is in a quiet, rural area in central California. The reservoir resembles a river more than a lake as it winds its way among the hills of Calaveras and Tuolumne counties.

The reservoir is a popular fishing area, but in the middle of March its catch of the day wasn\’t fish: It was four decomposed bodies of immigrants from the former Soviet Union who were kidnapped from the Los Angeles area.