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

'Russian speaking Israelis are a lot more embracive of their heritage because of the war'

DECEMBER 20, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Prof. Zeev Khanin

How Euro-Asian Jewish Congress gave a voice to the Soviet Jewry

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Sharansky: We have an opportunity for hundreds of thousands of olim from Russia

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine expects another wave of aliyah in the winter

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

How does the global Jewish community see the future of post-Soviet Jewry?

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Shai: “I'm concerned about the divide between world Jewry and Israel”

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

DECEMBER 19, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

The role of ethnicity in Israel after 75 years - opinion

Only about 5% of Israelis rate ethnic cleavage as the main source of tension in Israel - stronger by far are tensions between Arabs and Jews or Right and Left.

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByUZI REBHUN
THE GROOM breaks a glass, the traditional conclusion of a Jewish wedding ceremony. We have witnessed a narrowing of ethnic gaps and greater intermingling of Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, perhaps most significantly in ethnic intermarriage, says the writer.

Law of Return: Grandchildren of Jews have Jewish blood - opinion

Let's look at the glass half full: For those who are confident of their culture, their land and their peoplehood, there is simply no fear, no trepidation and no worry.

DECEMBER 4, 2022ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN
REVELERS WATCH a fireworks display on Independence Day in Tel Aviv, last year. Immigrant grandchildren of Jews will come to value a restful Shabbat and the excitement of Independence Day and will undoubtedly teach it to their own children, says the writer.

Israel must change Law of Return to save Jewish majority - opinion

Without fixing the problem of non-Jewish aliyah, the whole establishment of aliyah will be jeopardized. Desperate times call for drastic and creative measures.

NOVEMBER 30, 2022ByAKIVA LAMM
A NEW immigrant from North America kisses the ground upon his arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport. Coming from the United States, 21,000 people made aliyah in the past 30 years, approximately 94%, 20,000 people, are Jewish.

What will Avi Maoz taking over Nativ mean for former Soviet Union Jews?

Nativ has the authority to determine the eligibility of people wishing to immigrate to Israel from FSU countries pursuant to the Law of Return.

NOVEMBER 28, 2022ByZVIKA KLEIN
Noam Party leader Avi Maoz poses for a picture at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 19, 2021.