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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

Soviet dissidents

Natan Sharansky (left) and Alexei Navalny. (Collage/AP)
February 20, 2024, 2:43 am
After reading his book, Navalny corresponded with Sharansky about enduring in prison
News site publishes handwritten letters between the two dissidents, with former Prisoner of Zion urging now-deceased Russian opposition leader to ‘maintain your inner freedom’
By ToI Staff
A grab from an AFPTV footage taken on August 7, 2018, shows Russian poet Lev Rubinstein talking to journalists outside a church where the farewell ceremony for the director Alexander Rastorguyev took place, in Moscow. (Photo by AFPTV teams/AFP)
January 14, 2024, 4:17 pm
Russian dissident poet Lev Rubinstein, 76, dies of injuries after being hit by car
Vocal human rights activist was one of the founders of the Russian conceptualist movement, protested against Putin’s ‘criminal war’ in Ukraine
By AFP
Supporters for the freedom of Soviet Jewry rally in front of the Soviet consulate in San Francisco in a undated photo. (Courtesy of American Jewish Historical Society)
February 7, 2023, 4:17 pm
FBI memo: Bay Area Soviet Jewry protest leaders secretly sought Jews for Jesus’ help
Freedom of information request yields stunning revelation that leadership recruited the well-organized but widely loathed proselytizing group to help organize and bolster crowds
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
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
Yelena Lembersky, author of 'Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour.' (Courtesy)
July 26, 2022, 1:43 am
Relics of a USSR both maddening and sweet emerge in blockbuster Jewish memoir
Yelena Lembersky’s ‘Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour’ is a surprisingly even-handed tale of escape from the Iron Curtain with her grandfather’s famous Babyn Yar massacre paintings
By Julie Masis
Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the Jewish Agency, at his office in Jerusalem on September 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
March 24, 2020, 1:55 pm
Natan Sharansky gives tips for quarantine based on Soviet gulag
Former politician and Jewish Agency chief urges viewers to cling to their hobbies and humor, make plans that they can control, and ‘remember you are not alone’
By Michael Bachner
Polish President Andrzej Duda at the presidential palace, Warsaw, April 10, 2016. (Mateusz Wlodarczyk/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images/JTA)
June 6, 2019, 10:57 am
Poland honors conservative philosopher fired by UK government over Soros rant
Roger Scruton, axed from housing panel, drew opprobrium for comments about Chinese authoritarianism, a ‘Soros empire’ in Hungary, the ‘sudden invasion’ of Muslim migrants to Europe
By ToI Staff and AP
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