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Author Leon Uris (right) receives a handmade copy of Exodus from Alexander Smukler, a refusnik, during a visit to Moscow in November 1989. Credit: Alexander Smukler via Wikimedia Commons.
Leon Uris, master and commander of the written word
Though banned in the Soviet Union, through underground copies “Exodus” impacted and influenced Jews stuck behind the Iron Curtain.
Semyon Axelrod
Dec. 10, 2024
Golda Meir, Israel's first ambassador to the Soviet Union, visited the Choral Synagogue in Moscow on Oct. 4, 1948. Photo by David Khabkin/Nativ.
New photo emerges of Golda Meir’s historic 1948 Moscow visit
Thousands of Soviet Jews risked persecution to greet Israel's first ambassador, overwhelming security measures to show solidarity with the new Jewish state.
Ariel Kahana
Dec. 6, 2024
Katerina Schneider with Mina and Aaron’s sister Sheina in 1918. Photo enhanced and colorized by MyHeritage.
Jewish family divided since Russian Revolution united via online genealogy research
“Learning about our grandfather Aaron’s journey from Moscow to China and the challenges he faced has deepened our appreciation for the resilience and adaptability that runs in our family,” Alex Schneider tells JNS.
David Swindle
Aug. 16, 2024
Rabbi Hillel Zaltzman. Credit: Chabad.org/Jewish TV.
A book on faith, Judaism and defying Soviet rule
Chabadniks literally risked torture, exile and death to hide other religious Jews on the run and to secretly teach Torah to Jewish youth.
Phyllis Chesler
March 26, 2024
Portuguese Socialist Party headquarters in Lisbon. Credit: Rachimbourg via Wikimedia Commons.
The Jews, the USSR and the Portuguese Socialist Party 2020-23
Government is materialistically based and too involved with the interests of the Arab countries; the Jewish world is viewed as a threat to official ideology.
Vivian Groisman
Jan. 5, 2024
Palestinian women march in Hebron in support of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Oct. 13, 2023. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
The hypocrisy of the feminists
Their silence on the mass rape and femicide on Oct. 7 condemns them.
Fiamma Nirenstein
Nov. 27, 2023
Helping Russian-speaking olim face the challenges
Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli organizes holiday and social events, mentoring and more for the new immigrants.
Pesach Benson
June 27, 2023
Kansas Sen. Bob Dole (at left) and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (at right) with Russian Ambassador Vladimir Lukin, 1994. Credit: Courtesy of Rabbi Yosef Cunin.
Joe Lieberman: ‘Fight for justice’ to retrieve stolen Chabad library from Russia
The former U.S. senator from Connecticut, who is featured in a new documentary, told JNS about efforts to repatriate some 12,000 religious volumes.
Bradley Martin
May 17, 2023
Jewish immigrants fleeing the war in Ukraine on a rescue flight sponsored by Keren Hayesod arrive at Ben-Gurion Airport, March 9, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
A new post-Soviet aliyah
Sanctions, antisemitism and war are pushing new waves of Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian Jews to immigrate to Israel.
Dmitri Shufutinsky
Jan. 12, 2023