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Olim attend an event marking 25 years of the great aliyah from the former Soviet Union, in Jerusalem in 2015. Do we no longer have the resolve to save Jews?

How Israel risks distancing the Russian Jewish community

By SHLOMO NEEMAN

UKRAINIAN WAR prisoner, guarded by serviceman of the separatist self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic army, awaits the next round of prisoner exchange, in Alexandrovka village

'Your Presence Is Mandatory': Connecting Ukraine’s past and present

By PAUL GOLDBERG

‘OPERATION WEDDING’ poster. Designed for Hillel by shnorkels.com

Remarkable Soviet Jewish women and their struggle for freedom

By ANDREA SAMUELS

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

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin (R) meets with former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger at the Kremlin in Moscow, 2017.

'The Dissident': A tale of a Jewish refusenik's deal with the KGB - review

By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

SIGNS OF Jews in Birobidzhan in 2012.

'The History of Birobidzhan': The Jewish land on the Russia-China border - review

By COLIN SHINDLER

The mushroom cloud of the first test of a hydrogen bomb, "Ivy Mike", as photographed on Enewetak, an atoll in the Pacific Ocean, in 1952, by a member of the United States Air Force's Lookout Mountain.

The Jewish story behind ‘Oppenheimer,’ explained

By SHIRA LI BARTOV/JTA , ANDREW LAPIN/JTA

Tartu, Estonia.

Estonia set to become first ex-Soviet state to back gay marriage

By REUTERS

AVITAL AND Natan Sharansky, reunited after 12 years, smile during an airport news conference upon his arrival in Israel, in 1986. The dynamic for Soviet Jewry changed with the founding of SSSJ, says the writer.

American Jews need a Soviet-style activist defense org. - opinion

By RON RUBIN

AN EXPERT at The State Museum of Political History of Russia in St. Petersburg adjusts a tag on a bust of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. Some Jews in the book used art to try to promote their Soviet bonafides.

'How the Soviet Jew Was Made': When Jews migrated to Russia's cities - review

By PAUL GOLDBERG

CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE Day, on Wednesday, with the traditional barbecue: We should offer thanks for a fledgling state that, in just three-quarters of a century, made possible what seemed impossible.

Stepping back with pride on Israel’s 75th - opinion

By AVI WEISS

NATAN SHARANSKY on the Haas Promenade in Jerusalem.

Israel Independence Day: Celebrating 75 years with Natan Sharansky

A woman points to her relatives’ names on the memorial wall at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Passover: Former Soviet Union Jews finding freedom in Israel

By Veronica Neifakh

Google co-founder Sergey Brin at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos in 2017.

US Jews don't recognize the impact of Russian immigrants on Israel

By ERIC R. MANDEL

A photograph of Stalin taken in 1937.

Purim 1953 in the USSR: When Joseph Stalin had his fatal stroke

By LARRY PFEFFER

An aerial view shows a building and cars burnt in an attack by Israeli settlers, following an incident where a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli settlers, near Hawara in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 27, 2023

Talking violence in Huwara and Ukraine

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE DICHOTOMIC nature of Kaplan’s life in the USSR comes across in ‘Interior.’

New Israeli exhibit gives Soviet artist Anatoly Kaplan overdue salute