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 The writer conducts a wedding ceremony.

Love, faith, and unity amidst war: A rabbi’s unexpected wedding tal

By HAYIM LEITER
 ‘COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA’ director Semion Aleksandrovskiy.

New theatre production ‘Collective Phenomena’ reveals story of defiant Soviet-Jewish scientists

 New immigrants, many from the Former Soviet Union, gather to celebrate Sukkot and the opening of "the Dacha" activity center in Tel Aviv.

Activity center for new immigrants from FSU opens in Tel Aviv

 A general view picture shows the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Silwan June 19, 2017.

Jewish Agency and Azerbaijani rabbis condemn division amid Iranian spy ring allegations

 AFTER A SWIFT operation by Azerbaijan’s military to retake control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, ethnic Armenians flee for the Armenian border last September.

Israel’s role in the Nagorno-Karabakh crisis: A troubling legacy

By SHMUEL LEDERMAN
 The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan September 15, 2023.

Reflecting on Kazakhstan's painful legacy: A call for global nuclear disarmament

By Karipbek Kuyukov
 PENNSYLVANIA GOV. Josh Shapiro takes the stage at an election rally for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, in Philadelphia, last week. Shapiro can show that he isn’t backing down from his lifelong mission of helping Jews and others in need, says the writer.

Josh Shapiro rescued me from Soviet antisemitism

By AVRAHAM GOLDSTEIN
 Masha Gessen speaks onstage at the 2022 CPJ International Press Freedom Awards at Glasshouses on November 17, 2022 in New York City.

Russia sentences Jewish writer Masha Gessen to prison in absentia for comments on Ukraine war

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
Marvel Jewish superhero Sabra.

Marvel removes Jewish superhero Sabra's Israeli identity

 Spirited Russian-speaking immigrants learn about Israel’s path to independence on a hike in the Jerusalem Hills.

New immigrants to Israel find solace, strength in community during wartime

By ELI MANDELBAUM
 OPPOSITION LEADERS Garry Kasparov (left), Alexei Navalny (center) who died in a Russian penal colony earlier this year, and Sergei Udaltsov (right) hold a banner during an opposition protest in St. Petersburg in 2012.

Chess champion and vocal opponent of Putin's Russia talks to 'Post'

By ORI LEWIS
 Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi gestures during a meeting with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro at the Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, Venezuela June 12, 2023.

Ebrahim Raisi signaled Iranian revolution's demise

 A Russian A-50 aircraft.

Russian plane has 'flown it's last': Ukraine downs surveillance craft

By REUTERS
A view shows an icon, an element of which depicts Soviet leader Joseph Stalin being blessed by Russian Orthodox saint Matrona of Moscow, and that was recently defaced with paint in an act of protest amid controversy over the icon’s apparent honouring of Stalin in Tbilisi, Georgia, January 10, 2024.

Protest in Georgian capital amid anger over 'desecration' of Stalin icon

By REUTERS
 Israeli military reservists were among the 150 people with roots in the former Soviet Union who gathered on Dec. 21, 2023, for an evening of lectures, music and solidarity with Israel.

Wars in Israel, Ukraine take center stage in Israel for Jews rooted in former USSR

By LARRY LUXNER/JTA
 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

 Aeroflot's An-2, the same plane Dymshits-Kuznetsov group tried to hijack

What historical events occurred due to hijacking of Soviet Plane in 1970?

By JOSEPH MENDELVICH
 THE TEL SAKI memorial site near Moshav Ramat Magshimim on the Golan Heights commemorates IDF soldiers who fell during the fighting there in the Yom Kippur War of 1973.

Yom Kippur War: The Middle East Armageddon's uncounted victims - comment