Andrei Sakharov

It was precisely 25 years ago that Natan Sharansky, icon of the struggle to liberate Soviet Jewry, walked to freedom across Berlin’s Glienicke…

At 87, Robert Bernstein, founder of Human Rights Watch, began his second life. Thirty-three years after he founded Helsinki Watch in 1976, which…

When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be…

You may wonder why a man just shy of his 88th birthday would get up at five in the morning to fly to Omaha to give a speech. Frankly, since accepting…

Orit, a female combat medic in the IDF, was awakened one night to see a patient. She found herself face-to-face with one of the most notorious…

Hamas official Khalil al-Hayeh said that Gilad Schalit will not be released until Israel meets all of Hamas's demands while speaking at a Gaza rally…

The public campaign to place pressure on the government to take the necessary steps to free kidnapped soldier Gilad Schalit moved Friday from a…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Schalit family were set to meet Friday afternoon at the protest tent outside the prime minister's residence…

Aviva Schalit spoke during a rally at Jerusalem's Independence Park on Thursday evening, as an 11- day freedom march calling for her son's release…

Those marching for Gilad Schalit’s freedom will be passing the Gan Sakharov entrance to Jerusalem on Thursday. In the 1950s, Andrei Sakharov was…

Opposite the office of Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, at the entrance to the organization’s conference room in its cavernous Jerusalem…

With 160,485 members (and counting) in the “Mohamed ElBaradei 2011” Facebook group, the ex-head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is now one…

On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject US President Barack Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat…

The article entitled Spain funds 'summer camp' for foreign volunteers to rebuild demolished illegal Palestinian homes, which merited the front page…

The definition of the Peter Principle is that "in a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." Sadly, this is the case in…

The upheaval in Iran may have ended and, conversely, it may have hardly begun, but from what we have seen so far, several mostly somber conclusions…

Natan Sharansky, the 61-year-old author, activist and former Soviet dissident, was elected chairman of the Jewish Agency by a unanimous vote of the…

In his invitation to this conference, the president of the forum, Thor Halvorssen, asked me to talk about my life, the suffering I have endured and…

VILNA, Lithuania - More than 60 years after World War II ended and almost 20 years after the Iron Curtain fell, Israel and the Jews must complete…

Cover story of Issue 23, March 3, 2008 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. OVER TWO DECADES HAVE passed since…