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Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry

Clockwise from top left: Former Prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky, ToI Jewish World editor Amanda Borschel-Dan, and historian Gil Troy, discuss the new book, 'Never Alone.' (screenshot)
September 10, 2020, 11:58 pm
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In video interview, ‘Never Alone’ co-authors Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy weigh in on troubling trend of cancel-Israel culture on campuses and how we can overcome it
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Illustrative: The organization Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry stages a protest against the religious persecution of the Iron Curtain in the 1960s. (Courtesy of Yeshiva University Archives, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Collection)
December 22, 2019, 3:09 am
Once heroes of US Jewry, Soviet Refuseniks are largely forgotten. Not for long
Anat Zalmanson-Kutznetsov, whose parents tried to hijack a plane to escape the Iron Curtain, launches educational initiative focused on unique bipartisan campaign to free USSR Jews
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)
November 14, 2014, 3:31 pm
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
Rabbi Meir Kahane, center, stands in the midst of Jewish Defense League protesters in Washington, March 20, 1977. (photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)
November 4, 2014, 3:21 pm
On Rabin anniversary, warnings of a former extremist
Yossi Klein Halevi’s first book, on his militant youth in Meir Kahane’s JDL, was initially published two days after the Rabin assassination in 1995. Now it is being re-released — coincidentally, terribly, amid a resurgence of Jewish radicalism
By David Horovitz
Solar energy entrepreneur Yossi Abramowitz, left, with President Shimon Peres, at Kibbutz Elifaz, April 2014 (photo credit: Yosef Engel)
April 24, 2014, 3:54 am
Captain Sunshine’s quixotic battle for the presidency
US-born Yosef Abramowitz hopes to succeed Shimon Peres. He has no chance, but that’s never stopped the veteran civil rights activist and solar energy pioneer
By Raphael Ahren
Jacob Birnbaum, founder of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry. (screen capture: Youtube/Mordechai Tokarsky)
April 10, 2014, 10:50 pm
Founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry dies
Jacob Birnbaum, 87, helped bring the plight of Jews trapped behind the Iron Curtian to the world’s attention
By JTA
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