Tag: Soviet Jewry
Natan Sharansky: ‘We’ll defeat our enemies today’
Natan Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik and Israeli statesman, spoke on Tuesday during the “March for Israel” on Nov. 14.
Sharansky spoke of his fight for Soviet Jewry to his immigration to Israel—that “they challenged...
Soviet Jewish activist and refusenik Ida Nudel dies in Israel at age 90
Ida Nudel, a leading activist and Zionist who sought permission for 16 years to leave the former Soviet Union and move to Israel, died on Tuesday at the age of 90.
Nudel was born in the former...
The moral courage of Isi Leibler
The death in Jerusalem of Isi Leibler at the age of 86 has robbed the Jewish world of one of its towering figures at a time when it is particularly ill-equipped for such a...
Soldiering on for the Jews and Israel
Reading a biography about a friend is a mixed experience. On the one hand, the protagonist is familiar. On the other, he’s a complete stranger, whose story unfolds like that of a fictional character...
A lesson in Hanukkah miracles from post-Soviet Jews
We Jews are no strangers to miracles, but in the great tales of Divine deliverance, the Hanukkah story feels like the runt of the litter.
Compared to the parting of the Red Sea or the...
50th anniversary of Leningrad trial sparks memories, educational initiatives
On Dec. 15, 1970, a small item appeared at the top of page three of The New York Times under the jarring headline, ‘Soviets Reported Trying 11, Mostly Jews, in Hijacking.’ Few could have predicted that...
Remembering the Holocaust in a post-‘sacred survival’ era
For several decades, the Holocaust shaped the way American Jews thought about their place in the modern world. For the generation that arose in the aftermath of World War II, the Shoah was the...
Netanyahu lauds Soviet immigrants, criticizes harsh remarks by chief rabbi
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized as “outrageous and inappropriate” recent comments by Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi about immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
According to Ynet, at a rabbinical gathering in Jerusalem last week, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef...
Natan Sharansky is awarded 2020 Genesis Prize
Natan Sharansky, the former Russian Prisoner of Zion who would later become head of Israel’s Jewish Agency, was named on Tuesday as the winner of the 2020 Genesis Prize in recognition of his “extraordinary...