Posts Tagged: Mikhail Gorbachev
Thousands of Russians Bid Farewell to Last Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev ‘the Peacemaker’
Thousands of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, on Saturday with many saying they wanted...
Gorbachev: The Man Who ‘Let My People Go’ — With Some Prompting
In October 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev met for a summit in Iceland. A group of Soviet Jewry activists from the...
Herzog: Gorbachev Was One of the 20th Century’s Most Extraordinary Figures
JNS.org - Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Yair Lapid joined international leaders on Wednesday in eulogizing former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who died...
Have the West and Iran Really Reached Rapprochement?
When describing the significance of the Geneva understandings between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany), the Arab world is...
Jewish Agency’s Sharansky Asks if Iran’s Rouhani is the New Gorbachev
For Natan Sharansky, former Israeli politician, Soviet dissident, and current Chair of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's global...
Stephen Hawking, Famed Theoretical Physicist, to Visit Israel
Stephen Hawking, internationally renowned English theoretical physicist and popular science author, is scheduled to visit Israel this summer, the Jerusalem Post reported. Hawking will travel to Israel...
The Rabbi and the Rhodes Scholar: How An Accidental Meeting Between Cory Booker and Me Led to Jewish Renewal
Twenty years ago this Monday, corresponding to the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah, a young African-American Rhodes scholar walked into a Chabad Jewish student center in...
