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NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism

By ALEX WINSTON

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV during a meeting with Kiev residents, after the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation, Nov. 30, 1943.

Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry

By ALEX WINSTON

RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS with front pages dedicated to the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in Moscow, last week.

Donald Trump is the new Neville Chamberlain

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

US President Joe Biden delivers his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 15, 2025.

What is oligarchy, and why did Biden warn Americans about it?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

At the opening of the Yosef Ostrovsky exhibition at the Castel Museum on December 18. From left: Hagai Sasson, the museum’s CEO; Meir Ostrovsky, son of the artist; and Yehiel Vaknin, deputy mayor of Ma’aleh Adumim.

The Moshe Castel Museum showcases paintings by Yosef Ostrovsky

By ALEK D. EPSTEIN

‘COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA’ director Semion Aleksandrovskiy.

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

By HAGAY HACOHEN

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

By PAMELA PELED

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

Remarkable Soviet Jewish women and their struggle for freedom

By ANDREA SAMUELS

Ali Baraka

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

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

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