August 25, 2016
11:27 am

Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel arrives for a roundtable discussion on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC March 2, 2015. (Win McNamee/Getty Images via JTA)

Russian Jews posthumously honor Elie Wiesel

Holocaust activist and Nobel laureate penned 1966 book that inspired movement to free Soviet Jewry

By JTA

June 22, 2016
4:10 pm

Rabbi Yona Yaakobi stands in front of the larger synagogue currently active in the Jewish Azerbaijani town of Krasnaya Sloboda. (Courtesy)

A glimpse into Azerbaijan’s hidden all-Jewish town

Even as its future is uncertain, the unique north Caucasus community of Krasnaya Sloboda is experiencing a religious revival

By Lee Gancman

August 3, 2015
2:46 pm

Former President Shimon Peres with Sergei Brin of Google at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. (Photo credit: Moshe Milner/ GPO/FLASH90)

Have a hot technology start-up today? Thank Comrade Gorbachev

From the Web Forbes: Jews who were let free from the old Soviet Union went on to build some of the biggest names in tech

May 22, 2015
3:18 pm

Illustrative: An Israeli rabbinical court reviews a conversion case. (Flash90)

Expert: State has failed ex-Soviet would-be converts

Amid decline in conversions, Israel Democracy Institute’s Netanel Fisher says more must be done to remove obstacles

By Gedalyah Reback

April 25, 2015
7:07 pm

Renowned Soviet refusenik Vladimir Slepak in 2007. (screen capture: YouTube)

Renowned Soviet refusenik Vladimir Slepak dies at 87

Influential dissenter who waged 17-year campaign to emigrate to Israel will be buried Monday in Jerusalem

By Justin Jalil

March 20, 2015
8:26 pm

More than 6,000 young Russian-speaking Jews participated in summer camp programs offered by the Jewish Agency in the former Soviet Union. (Photo credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Agency via JTA)

Finnish Christians celebrate 25 years of aiding Russian aliya

Nordic country’s Zionists commemorate anniversary of helping ex-Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel

By JTA

February 7, 2015
12:31 am

US House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (L), at the House Democratic Caucus retreat on January 29, 2015 in Philadelphia (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/NICHOLAS KAMM)

Pelosi meets Knesset speaker, recalls former ties

US House speaker says she lobbied for release of Yuli Edelstein when he was imprisoned as refusenik in the USSR

By JTA

November 29, 2014
2:02 am

Yosef Mendelevitch visiting St. Petersburg Airport, November 30, 2014. (Photo credit: Roman Yanushevsky, Courtesy of Limmud FSU)

Former refusenik makes first visit to St. Petersburg since 1970

Renowned ‘Prisoner of Zion’ Yosef Mendelevitch speaks at Russian conference 44 years after attempted hijacking of plane to Israel

By JTA

November 14, 2014
3:31 pm

Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)

Limmud FSU goes back to Galicia, to build a Jewish future

Away from the tumult of war, Limmud Lviv brings Jews from the former Soviet Union together for an intense weekend of learning — and community building

By Yifa Yaakov

October 24, 2014
8:04 am

Sunset over Moscow (photo credit: Anna Kaplan/Flash90)

Moscow JCC renamed for JDC’s Ralph Goldman

The late Jewish leader had spearheaded covert US Jewish aid to Soviet Jews behind the Iron Curtain

By JTA

September 7, 2014
6:04 pm

ForFormer US national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger in Jerusalem, May 2008 (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)mer US National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Jerusalem, May 2008. (photo credit: Olivier Fitoussi /FLASH90)

Kissinger calls for ‘all-out attack’ on Islamic State

Ex-diplomat says under Obama’s leadership Americans ‘have made ourselves bystanders’ in the Middle East

By Marissa Newman

February 20, 2014
2:05 pm

The wacky world of author Gary Shteyngart is on display in a new memoir, 'Little Failure.' (photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe/Courtesy of Random House)

Shteyngart’s memoir ‘Little Failure’ is great success

A means of ‘clearing the deck’ for new topics, the Jewish-American-Russian writer’s new book may be his best yet

By Renee Ghert-Zand

October 14, 2013
7:17 pm

Math prof Edward Frenkel in 'Rites of Love and Math' (photo credit: courtesy)

Hot Berkeley prof gets his kit off for calculus

Nudie art film star and the world’s sexiest ‘spokesman for math,’ Edward Frenkel uses borscht in his new book to teach quantum duality

By Renee Ghert-Zand

June 25, 2013
2:04 am

Ex-Mossad chief to help FSU immigrants prove Jewish roots

Efraim Halevy appointed to head program that seeks to ascertain ancestry of olim

June 6, 2013
1:53 am

The casket of US Sen. Frank Lautenberg is transferred to an Amtrak train en route to Washington D.C. during a Color Guard ceremony at the Frank R. Lautenberg Rail Station on Wednesday in Secaucus, N.J. (photo credit: AP/Frank Franklin II)

Mourners take rail booster Lautenberg on one last ride

Topic: Soviet Jews

Russian Jews posthumously honor Elie Wiesel

Holocaust activist and Nobel laureate penned 1966 book that inspired movement to free Soviet Jewry

A glimpse into Azerbaijan’s hidden all-Jewish town

Even as its future is uncertain, the unique north Caucasus community of Krasnaya Sloboda is experiencing a religious revival

Have a hot technology start-up today? Thank Comrade Gorbachev

From the Web Forbes: Jews who were let free from the old Soviet Union went on to build some of the biggest names in tech

Expert: State has failed ex-Soviet would-be converts

Amid decline in conversions, Israel Democracy Institute’s Netanel Fisher says more must be done to remove obstacles

Renowned Soviet refusenik Vladimir Slepak dies at 87

Influential dissenter who waged 17-year campaign to emigrate to Israel will be buried Monday in Jerusalem

Finnish Christians celebrate 25 years of aiding Russian aliya

Nordic country’s Zionists commemorate anniversary of helping ex-Soviet Jews emigrate to Israel

Pelosi meets Knesset speaker, recalls former ties

US House speaker says she lobbied for release of Yuli Edelstein when he was imprisoned as refusenik in the USSR

Former refusenik makes first visit to St. Petersburg since 1970

Renowned ‘Prisoner of Zion’ Yosef Mendelevitch speaks at Russian conference 44 years after attempted hijacking of plane to Israel

Limmud FSU goes back to Galicia, to build a Jewish future

Away from the tumult of war, Limmud Lviv brings Jews from the former Soviet Union together for an intense weekend of learning — and community building

Moscow JCC renamed for JDC’s Ralph Goldman

The late Jewish leader had spearheaded covert US Jewish aid to Soviet Jews behind the Iron Curtain

Kissinger calls for ‘all-out attack’ on Islamic State

Ex-diplomat says under Obama’s leadership Americans ‘have made ourselves bystanders’ in the Middle East

Shteyngart’s memoir ‘Little Failure’ is great success

A means of ‘clearing the deck’ for new topics, the Jewish-American-Russian writer’s new book may be his best yet

Hot Berkeley prof gets his kit off for calculus

Nudie art film star and the world’s sexiest ‘spokesman for math,’ Edward Frenkel uses borscht in his new book to teach quantum duality

Ex-Mossad chief to help FSU immigrants prove Jewish roots

Efraim Halevy appointed to head program that seeks to ascertain ancestry of olim

Mourners take rail booster Lautenberg on one last ride

Jewish senator, who died on Monday at 89, remembered by vice president and others as someone who never gave up on things he believed in

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