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Topic: Natan Sharansky

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December 29, 2012
4:04 am

Israeli activists dramatize Sylva Zalmanson's imprisonment in the Soviet Union by protesting in a cage with a sign that reads, "Zalmanson, the people are with you." (Courtesy of Anat Kuznetzov-Zalmanson)

My mom and dad, the would-be Zionist plane hijackers

An Israeli filmmaker hopes her next project will be a documentary about her parents, whose famous failure to steal a plane helped make Soviet Jewry a global cause

By Renee Ghert-Zand

December 28, 2012
4:49 am

An Israeli member of the Women of the Wall organization prays just outside the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Fight for women’s equality at the Western Wall fails to move secular Israelis

Although Netanyahu has requested to review policies at holy site, prayer restrictions rank near the bottom of a long list of church-state issues

December 26, 2012
4:55 pm

Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to the Western Wall in 2006 (photo credit: Guy Assayag/Flash90)

Netanyahu seeks solution for restrictions on women’s prayer at Western Wall

Holy site ‘must remain a source of Jewish unity rather than division,’ PM tells Jewish Agency chair

December 6, 2012
6:31 pm

On the eve of Mikhail Gorbachev's first visit to the US in 1987, 250,000 activists marched on Washington DC to demand freedom for Soviet Jewry. (Courtesy of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry)

Soviet Jewry activists commemorate ‘a singular day in Jewish history’

Twenty-five years after chants of ‘Let my people go!’ rang out in Washington DC, organizers of the fight to free the USSR’s Jews recall a landmark triumph

By Times of Israel staff

November 25, 2012
9:58 pm

Young Russian-speaking Jewish communal leaders during a conference organized by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Ministry in Maastricht, Holland, November 21-25 (photo credit: Alex Delomann)

Russian-speaking Jews in Europe drafted to defend Israel online

Hundreds of communal leaders brought together in Holland to learn how to fight delegitimization attempts

By Philip Podolsky

November 13, 2012
7:06 pm

The Rebbe’s quiet role in freeing Soviet Jewry

Did public protests or quiet diplomacy unlock the gates?

By David Eliezrie

November 13, 2012
11:59 am

Jewish Agency chairman and former cabinet minister Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Courtesy JAFI)

Sharansky rails against Peres, who thanked Russia for ‘thousand years of hospitality’

Why did world Jewry have to struggle on behalf of Soviet brethren if the country was so friendly to Jews, USSR-born ex-prisoner of Zion asks

By Raphael Ahren

November 2, 2012
10:22 pm

French President Francois Hollande greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara at the ceremony at the Jewish school in Toulouse. (Avi Ohayon/GPO/Flash90/JTA)

At site of shootings, French president vows to fight anti-Semitism

In joint appearance with Israel’s prime minister, Francois Hollande pledges to prevent future attacks

By Cnaan Liphshiz

October 28, 2012
3:45 pm

Newly arrived Ethiopian immigrants at Ben-Gurion International Airport in 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

240 Falash Mura due in Israel on Monday

Jewish Agency set to welcome first in a series of monthly flights

By Times of Israel staff

October 18, 2012
10:22 pm

Hannah Rosenthal, center, the top American anti-Semitism monitor, meets last year with students in Azerbaijan. (Photo credit: US Embassy in Baku via JTA)

American anti-Semitism czar hails her ‘breakthrough’ definition of the oldest hatred

After three years leading the charge from the US State Department, outgoing envoy Hannah Rosenthal reflects on her biggest challenges and accomplishments

By Ron Kampeas

October 11, 2012
1:25 am

‘Too bad the Arab Spring didn’t happen 20 years ago,’ says Natan Sharansky

There will always be anti-Semitism in the Middle East, but the more democratic Arab states become, the less dangerous they are for Israel, the Jewish Agency chairman asserts

By Raphael Ahren

October 5, 2012
10:02 am

American citizen William Hershkovitz, who shot a coworker in Eilat Oct. 5. (photo credit: Image capture from Channel 10)

23-year-old New Yorker kills hotel employee in Eilat, then shot dead by security forces

William Hershkovitz was working at hotel as part of work-study program sponsored by the Jewish Agency

By Yoel Goldman and AP

September 18, 2012
8:41 pm

Participants celebrating during services at the World Union for Progressive Judaism Conference of Jewish Communities in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 2012. (photo credit: Diego Melamed/JTA)

Latin America’s Jewish communities flourish, despite anti-Semitism and education challenges

Venezuela is the grim exception, in a region now home to an estimated 500,000 Jews

By Diego Melamed

August 19, 2012
1:34 pm

Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Dozens cancel move to Israel due to Iran threats

Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky says potential immigrants are waiting for calmer times

By Aaron Kalman

August 14, 2012
11:39 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presents Israeli identity cards to Barak and Ro'i Gaibel, one of five sets of twins that made aliya on Tuesday (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

PM, Sharansky greet 351 US immigrants — including five sets of twins and two sets of triplets

127 of the arrivals, on Nefesh B’Nefesh anniversary flight, will be enlisting in the IDF

By Asher Zeiger

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