Russian dissident Navalny corresponded from prison with Natan Sharansky "Alexei Navalny was dangerous to the Russian tyrant for two reasons: He did more than anyone else to expose the nature of the Russian dictatorship to the eyes of hundreds of millions of people," said Sharansky. David Baron Feb. 20, 2024
‘We live our lives not entirely, fully understood,’ Jewish Russian-American writer says Maxim D. Shrayer, a professor at Boston College, thinks that there are lessons for Jewish Americans from his “translingual” immigrant experience and the history of refuseniks. Menachem Wecker Jan. 8, 2024
Natan Sharansky: ‘We’ll defeat our enemies today’ “Know that there is only one outcome in this battle: our victory,” said the former Soviet refusenik and Israeli statesman. David Swindle Nov. 14, 2023
The Hanukkah message for today Will American Jews, like the Jewish Hellenists, find refuge in assimilation? Pamela Braun Cohen Dec. 21, 2022
Celebrate Gorbachev’s failure to save the Soviet Union, not his heroism Lionized abroad while scorned at home, he thought he could preserve the Communist regime by liberalizing it. Other tyrannical states won’t make that same mistake. Jonathan S. Tobin Aug. 31, 2022
How will we remember Ida Nudel? What she did for Soviet Jewry makes her a symbol of resistance, a model for generations. Pamela Braun Cohen Sept. 20, 2021
Soviet Jewish activist and refusenik Ida Nudel dies in Israel at age 90 Former Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein, also an ex-refusenik, called her “one of the great icons of the struggle for the right to immigrate to Israel from the Soviet Union.” Sept. 15, 2021
We’re losing them … in memory of Ida Nudel Ida was small in stature but a giant on so many levels. She was selfless, heroic and brave, taking care of others’ well-being over hers and suffering tremendous persecution along the way. Jonathan Feldstein Sept. 15, 2021
The lonely American refusenik Will the “new refuseniks”—idealistic young U.S. Jews with Soviet roots—ultimately have to consider leaving America, as we left the USSR? Maxim D. Shrayer Aug. 15, 2021
