Soviet Jewry

'To succeed as a Jew is to survive,' Natan Sharansky tells 'Post' - interview

Natan Sharansky is an Israeli politician, author, and former Chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency. He was born in 1948 in what is now Donetsk, Ukraine, to a Jewish family

FEBRUARY 10, 2026|ByMATHILDA HELLER

IN THE Stalin era’s early days, the Kremlin established a new administrative territory in the Soviet Far East – the Jewish Autonomous Region. The region’s capital was the city of Birobidzhan. This 274-photograph album includes images from the city’s early years, from the late 1920s.

'World Enemy No. 1': Hitler, Stalin, and the crime of being Jewish - review

Hundreds of Jewish Communists who had escaped to the USSR were handed over by the Soviets to the Nazis at the border crossing of Brest-Litovsk.

FEBRUARY 8, 2026|ByCOLIN SHINDLER

Dnipro chief rabbi: Joy in being Jewish restored post-Soviet Dnipro Jewry

When Kaminetsky arrived in the Closed City in 1990, the years of pogroms, Nazi conquest, and Soviet oppression had reduced almost fifty synagogues to one small house of worship.

FEBRUARY 1, 2026|ByMICHAEL STARR

Israeli President Isaac Herzog at an event hosted by the Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) of the Former Soviet Union in Jerusalem, November 8, 2025.

Herzog: Israel must do more for immigrants from the Former Soviet Union

The event, a salute to FJC’s network of schools, synagogues, and youth programs across the former Soviet space, featured personal testimony illustrating the stakes for families uprooted by conflict.

NOVEMBER 8, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Grapevine: Happy birthday, prisoner of Zion!

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JANUARY 18, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Israelis with Soviet roots unite in solidarity in Tel Aviv amid the war

Limmud FSU aims to help Jews with roots from the former Soviet republics preserve their religious identity and unique traditions.

JANUARY 15, 2025ByLARRY LUXNER/JTA

Limmud FSU's Israel team of volunteers were key to the success of the annual Limmud FSU Israel event, Dec. 29, 2024.

The Moshe Castel Museum showcases paintings by Yosef Ostrovsky

In addition to being a consummate portraitist, Yosef Ostrovsky was also an extremely rare example of a Soviet citizen who became a quintessentially Jewish painter.

JANUARY 4, 2025ByALEK D. EPSTEIN

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.

Grapevine December 25, 2024: The key priority

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

DECEMBER 25, 2024ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

FLAVIO CAIAFA (left) and Aharon Palmon, vice president for research and development at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

How Israel risks distancing the Russian Jewish community - opinion

After years of harmful rhetoric, Israel risks losing some major supporters in Russian Jewish businessmen.

OCTOBER 10, 2024BySHLOMO NEEMAN

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?

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

Traversing time and geography through literature.

JUNE 23, 2024ByPAUL GOLDBERG

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

Remarkable Soviet Jewish women and their struggle for freedom

Not free to live as Jews, these women risked their lives to escape the Soviet Union, where they faced imprisonment for engaging in Zionist activity

MARCH 16, 2024ByANDREA SAMUELS

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

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.

DECEMBER 28, 2023ByELI KAVON