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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 435

Iron curtain

Chinese censors did not allow a local company to print copies of 'The Queen of Cleveland' for American publisher Hasidic Archives. (Book cover image courtesy of Hasidic Archives/ via JTA)
October 9, 2022, 3:03 am
Chinese censors ban the printing of Hasidic woman’s memoir for a US publisher
Citing ‘anti-Communist’ content, authorities won’t let locals print ‘The Queen of Cleveland,’ Shula Kazen’s story of surviving the Iron Curtain, even though it would be sold abroad
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
In this February 24, 2014, photo, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum speaks during a conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
November 7, 2020, 7:55 am
Israel funds Jewish community-focused high-tech projects in former Soviet Union
A new program co-sponsored by the Israeli government and Limmud FSU is fostering innovation that will help grow local Jewish life and build bridges with the Jewish state
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Joseph Stalin in July, 1941. (Public domain)
June 23, 2020, 3:21 pm
Far from toppling statues, former Soviet Union puts up new monuments to Stalin
After Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces almost unveiled a mural of late dictator on June 22, Moscow-born former MK Ksenia Svetlova explores a troubling new trend of Stalin worship
By Ksenia Svetlova
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at the Koerber Foundation in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2019. (Hannibal Hanschke/POOL/AFP)
November 8, 2019, 1:10 pm
Pompeo warns against Chinese, Russian clout on eve of Berlin Wall anniversary
‘We are in a competition of values with unfree nations,’ US secretary of state says in Germany, cites Western ‘responsibility to deter threats’ from such governments
By AFP
The 1983 Canadian national junior hockey team that competed in the world championship in then-Leningrad. Sherwood Bassin is seated front row center, to the right of the goalie. (Courtesy/Hockey Canada)
September 8, 2019, 3:36 am
The Cold War caper that saw future hockey stars sneak prayer books to USSR Jews
Sherry Bassin says that he was ‘just doing what’s right’ when he convinced Canada’s junior hockey players to hide religious items among their gear for the 1983 championship
By Robert Sarner
David Shrayer-Petrov outside of the Brookline Booksmith store in November, where he and the translators of 'Doctor Levitin' spoke to a crowd. (Courtesy of Maxim Shrayer/via JTA)
December 19, 2018, 10:36 pm
Refusenik, 82, sees first English translation of his tragic 1979 novel
‘Doctor Levitin,’ the first literary work to deal with the experiences of the dissident Jews, written by renowned writer David Shrayer-Petrov, who escaped the Soviet Union in 1987
By Penny Schwartz
Joseph Schneider holds a pistol. (Courtesy National Library of Israel)
May 30, 2018, 2:56 pm
Family of refusenik puts on display the world’s only photos of Soviet gulag life
Archive that was smuggled out in a picture frame by Holocaust survivor, Red Army veteran and Zionist activist Joseph Schneider is now housed at the National Library of Israel
By Yaakov Schwartz
Russian chief rabbi Berel Lazar, right, with Baruch Ramatsky, holding the Torah scroll Ramatsky's family has kept hidden for the last 90 years, inside the synagogue of Tomsk, February 1, 2018. (Courtesy Chabad of Tomsk)
March 16, 2018, 2:00 pm
In frozen Siberia, a small Jewish community is unthawed
On the day an ancient synagogue is returned to the Jews of Tomsk by the Russian government, the caretaker’s grandson reveals the Torah scroll his family kept secret for 90 years
By Yaakov Schwartz
Leonard Bernstein and daughter, left, with Lilian Hochhauser. (Courtesy)
February 11, 2017, 10:39 am
At 90 and with stories to tell, this British impresario still presents cultural legends
Lilian Hochhauser, historic promoter of Russian artists in Britain, continues to toil in her latest project: a three-week run from the acclaimed Mariinsky dance company
By Jenni Frazer
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