Sharansky wins second term as head of Jewish Agency

Published on February 19, 2013

Natan Sharansky was elected to a second term as chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

Vladimir Lenin was part Jewish, according to declassified KGB files

By JewishJournal.com
Published on June 14, 2011

A Soviet Passover…

By Julia Bendis
Published on April 18, 2011

Everyone is Suddenly Irish on March 17th!

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 18, 2011

Chicken nuggets vs. my kids school lunches, Oye Vay…

By Julia Bendis
Published on March 11, 2011

Joys of growing up in Communist Soviet Union, and other tales of my Family.

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 16, 2011

How Poor Jews Come to America, meaning my parents!

By Julia Bendis
Published on December 15, 2010

Nixon’s allegation that the Jews have no pride

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
Published on December 13, 2010

Kennedy seen as giant on domestic issues, Soviet Jewry

Published on August 26, 2009

U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) is being remembered in the Jewish community for his huge impact on domestic issues such as education and health care, but also as a giant in the Soviet Jewry movement.

Jews laud Boris Yeltsin’s legacy

By Lev Krichevsky
Published on April 26, 2007

Russian Jewish leaders agree that the community should remember Boris Yeltsin, who died Monday at age 76, primarily as the man who ended decades of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Russia.

A World Away

By Tom Tugend
Published on January 10, 2002

When the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks suddenly put Afghanistan in the headlines and people searched their atlases for the bordering countries of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, Dr. Robert J. Meth had the answers.

Hollywood and the Holocaust

By Sally Ogle Davis
Published on April 19, 2001

One wet night 15 years after the end of World War II, in the student union of my university in Northern Ireland, I watched a documentary film made up of home movies taken by Soviet troops at the liberation of the concentration camps. Unlike some similar Allied footage, the Soviets, interested in the propaganda value of the material, had made no attempt to sanitize it for public consumption. They wanted the film to be every bit as hellish as the reality.

Lighten Up

By Rabbi Elazar Muskin
Published on March 8, 2001

With the demise of the former Soviet Union and the fall of communism in the early '90s, the story of Soviet Jewry's battle for survival appears to be ancient history. Yet one of the truly remarkable books of our time is the autobiography of one of the famous refuseniks, Yosef Mendelevitch, who struggled valiantly for his right to be Jewish in Communist Russia. Mendelevitch titled his autobiography "Mevzah Hatunah," which translates from Hebrew as "Operation Wedding."

Two In Brief

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on November 4, 1999

On July 18, 1947, Dr. Ruth Gruber stood on a wharf in Haifa and watched the battered ship Exodus inch into the harbor. The ship had been rammed by British warships determined to keep the 4,554 Holocaust survivors aboard from reaching Palestine.