Soviet Jewry

New immigrant pharmacists face discrimination, lack of gov't support despite professional shortage

Mazarsky's comments follow the state's reluctance to accept over 170 qualified pharmacists who are intending to make aliyah in the coming year and have opened files with the Jewish Agency.

|ByAVIHAI CHIIM
Illustration photo of Super Pharm drug store and pharmacy at the Hadar mall in Jerusalem, on April 30, 2018.
Natan Sharansky.

'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

|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.

|ByCOLIN SHINDLER
Dnipro, Ukraine in January 2026.

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.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

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

Joseph Stalin had a stroke and collapsed in his dacha on Purim, March 1, 1953, possibly assisted by someone in his inner circle. He died four days later.

MARCH 11, 2023ByLARRY PFEFFER
A photograph of Stalin taken in 1937.

Talking violence in Huwara and Ukraine

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and guest co-host Tamar Uriel-Beeri.

MARCH 2, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An aerial view shows a building and cars burnt in an attack by Israeli settlers, following an incident where a Palestinian gunman killed two Israeli settlers, near Hawara in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, February 27, 2023

New Israeli exhibit gives Soviet artist Anatoly Kaplan overdue salute

The Enchanted Artist is one of the most expansive and adventurous art exhibitions that Beit Avi Chai has ever produced.

FEBRUARY 3, 2023ByBARRY DAVIS
THE DICHOTOMIC nature of Kaplan’s life in the USSR comes across in ‘Interior.’

'Here We Are All Jews': Jewish champions behind the Iron Curtain - review

In his new book, JonathanPorath recounts his most extraordinary experiences on his 175 trips to the USSR in the period between 1965 and 2019

JANUARY 16, 2023ByMIRI WEISSMAN
Jonathan Porath presents his book to President Isaac Herzog.

Fingerhut: “The humanitarian needs in Ukraine are now getting worse as the winter sets in”

Highlights from the 2022 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress' annual conference with The Jerusalem Post.

DECEMBER 21, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Eric Fingerhut

“The right of return for diaspora Jews existed before the establishment of the state”

Highlights from the 2022 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress' annual conference with The Jerusalem Post.

DECEMBER 21, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prof. Asher Maoz

Should Israel’s Law of Return be changed or not?

Highlights from the 2022 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress' annual conference with The Jerusalem Post.

DECEMBER 21, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
MK Oded Forer

Former Supreme Court Justice: “The Law of Return expresses Israel as a Jewish and democratic state”

Highlights from the 2022 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress' annual conference with The Jerusalem Post

DECEMBER 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Aharon Barak

Lauder: '30 years ago people told me Jewish life in the FSU was dead, they were wrong'

DECEMBER 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ronald Lauder

'Together we shape the future of the Jewish people in the Euro-Asian region'

DECEMBER 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Dr. Mikhail Mirilashvili