Posts Tagged: USSR Jews
Counting Jews in Israel: The ‘Other’ Is Not Enough
On November 7, 2023, just one month after the Hamas massacre of Israelis and the onset of the war in Gaza, The Jerusalem Post’s Zvika...
Antisemitic Tropes in the Age of Post-Soviet War
The Russians are playing the “Jewish card” to ideologically justify their invasion of Ukraine, explaining it as a “fight against the radical nationalist, fascist, and...
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...
The USSR’s Collapse Was No Catastrophe for Israel
JNS.org - Russian President Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the former Soviet Union as the “biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” but for Israel,...
50th Anniversary of Leningrad Trial Sparks Memories and Education
JNS.org - On December 15, 1970, a small item appeared at the top of page three of The New York Times under the jarring headline,...
How Chess Helped Natan Sharansky Outlast the Soviet Union and Foster Jewish Unity
Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People by Gil Troy and Natan Sharansky (Hachette, 2020). In 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident...
A 30th Anniversary, Soviet Jews and the Making of History
On December 6, 1987 -- 30 years ago -- more than 250,000 people gathered in Washington to call on the Kremlin to open the gates and let Soviet Jews...
If Not Us, Who? A Lesson From Our History With Soviet Jews
Forty years ago this month, my life took a new path. Forty years later, I'm still on that path. The year was 1974. U.S. President Richard...
Frank Lautenberg Leaves Legacy of American Jewry’s Profile
The late Senator Frank Lautenberg. Photo: United States Senate. JNS.org - Someone searching for the legacy of Frank Lautenberg, the longtime...
Senator Lautenberg Honored by Hillel, New Jewish Identity Prize Bears His Name
Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). Photo: Hillel. JNS.org - Hillel: The Foundaton for Jewish Campus Life gave U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) the Renaissance...
