New book explores Hillel's rebuilding Jewish life in former Soviet Union
Sprinkled throughout the book are many vignettes that illustrate Hillel’s approaches.
EX-SOVIET dissident and then-minister Natan Sharansky (left) meets in Moscow with mayor Yuri Luzhkov, 1997. The book covers Hillel’s efforts to build Jewish activism among Sharansky’s successors in the former USSR in the 1990s, subsequent to his making aliyah.
