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 ‘COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA’ director Semion Aleksandrovskiy.

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

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Golda Meir meets with then-US president Richard Nixon, as then-secretary of state and national security advisor Henry Kissinger looks on, in the Oval Office of the White House, November 1, 1973.

Drawing relevant lessons from Nixon’s 1973 Middle East diplomacy

By JUDAH WAXELBAUM
 ‘ONLY STALIN’: Nikita Khrushchev (2nd L) alongside Joseph Stalin in the 1930s.

Netanyahu has a Stalin-like personality cult backed by messianic crazies

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

Remarkable Soviet Jewish women and their struggle for freedom

Ali Baraka

WATCH: America will collapse like the USSR, claims Hamas official

 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
 DESPITE RULING Russia for nearly a quarter of a century, Vladimir Putin has not learned a thing and has not transformed himself into a statesman, the writer argues.

Vladimir Putin is no competent ruler, he's just a KGB guard dog - opinion

By ALEXEI BAYER
 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 IRON Road,’ film still.

'Restoring memory': Israeli artist's journey is shown in Tel Aviv

 Anatoly Kaplan and his wife, Yevgenia.

The last Yiddish artist: Work of Anatoly Kaplan on display in Jerusalem

By MORDECHAI BECK
 Map of Tajikistan showing the capital, Dushanbe

Return to Dushanbe: A family's story of survival after the Holocaust

By Elaine Rosenberg Miller
 IN PORTUGAL, 2020.

Landscapes of his life

 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
 SUPPORTERS OF the Russian Communist Party attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin, in Moscow’s Red Square, in March.

Stalin and the creation of Israel: The Soviet tyrant’s inadvertent Zionism - opinion

 A SUPPORTER of the Russian Communist Party stands next to a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, during a May Day rally in Moscow last year.

My grandfather's USSR experience is mimicked in modern times - opinion

By NATI PRESSMAN
 PRESIDENT ISAAC HERZOG addresses the ‘Jerusalem Post’ conference at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, last week. Herzog says he is worried whether the state will reach 80 years.

75 years old is a dangerous age for Israel - opinion

By SHALOM SALOMON WALD
 A photograph of Stalin taken in 1937.

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

By LARRY PFEFFER