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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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
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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

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

March 20, 2013
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Iranian Jews eligible to immigrate to the US because of the Lautenberg Amendment arrive at Los Angeles International Airport in 2009. (Courtesy of HIAS via JTA)

Lifeline for US law that aided Soviet, now Iranian Jews

Jewish groups are among those advocating a stronger status for effort to shelter persecuted religious minorities

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Russian-speaking immigrants drink vodka during a Russian folk music festival at the Gan HaShlosha national park near the northern Israeli Town of Beit Shean. (photo credit: AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

‘Russian vote’ in Israel integrates into political mainstream

From the web The Guardian: Russian-speaking immigrants, comprising 15% of eligible voters, say they’re shaped by their Soviet heritage but feel Israeli

By Harriet Sherwood

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12:53 pm

Old City Memorial Monument (photo credit: Naama Bar-Am)

‘But when the sun rises, no one knows where they are’

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By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

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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

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1:11 pm

Relations were expected to improve between US President Barack Obama (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured in 2009, after the revocation of the Jackson-Vanik amendment. (photo credit: AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

US Congress set to replace historic law that helped free Soviet Jewry

With the support of Jewish groups, American legislators are expected to end Jackson-Vanik restrictions on Russia

By Ron Kampeas

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

Topic: Soviet Jews

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

Lifeline for US law that aided Soviet, now Iranian Jews

Jewish groups are among those advocating a stronger status for effort to shelter persecuted religious minorities

‘Russian vote’ in Israel integrates into political mainstream

From the web The Guardian: Russian-speaking immigrants, comprising 15% of eligible voters, say they’re shaped by their Soviet heritage but feel Israeli

‘But when the sun rises, no one knows where they are’

At Mount Herzl Military Heritage Site — home to the Garden of the Missing in Action — fallen heroes are honored. Prepare yourself for an emotional trip

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

US Congress set to replace historic law that helped free Soviet Jewry

With the support of Jewish groups, American legislators are expected to end Jackson-Vanik restrictions on Russia

The Rebbe’s quiet role in freeing Soviet Jewry

Did public protests or quiet diplomacy unlock the gates?

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