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.

 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

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

Dnipro, Ukraine in January 2026.

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


'Voice of Silence': The story of the Soviet Jewish underground - review

The book helps appreciate struggling to get to Israel versus ‘window seat-style arrivals.’

 EX-SOVIET dissident Natan Sharansky smiles in 1997 as he points at his former apartment in Moscow, which he last saw through the window of a KGB car on his way from jail in 1986 during the Soviet era.

These are the implications for Russian Jewry if Russia wins - opinion

If the West doesn’t demonstrate its determination to defend its eastern frontier, there may be a domino effect that will terrorize the Central European countries.

 A PHOTO taken last year in Lviv, Ukraine shows a house where Jews of the Lviv Ghetto lived during the occupation by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Why was a Jewish lawyer wanted by the FBI? New book tells all

“I really felt like I was accomplishing something for Soviet Jewry and I believed that the JDL’s early activities, while keeping the issue of Soviet Jewry in the news, didn’t really harm anyone.”

 PARDONED FALN terrorist-activist Oscar Lopez Rivera travels along Fifth Avenue during the 2017 Puerto Rican Day Parade, New York.

Story of the underground Hebrew teachers of the USSR explored in book

The sages tell us that the Jewish people maintained three unique behaviors in Egypt: Their dress, their Hebrew names, and the Hebrew language.

 Anna Kholmyansky and baby Dora in 1988

Saving Jews from persecution: The lesson from my bar mitzvah - opinion

If I had had access to the Kremlin the way Moses did to Pharaoh, I suspect I’d have gone there, too.

 RALLYING FOR Soviet Jewry in the US, Simhat Torah, 1983.

Svetlana Ladigin: An inspiring story of determination

Born in Ukraine, Svetlana made aliyah with her mother and maternal grandparents when she was three years old.

 Svetlana Ladigin, 26, From Ukraine to Haifa

Memories of the Hungarian Revolution

By 1948, communists controlled by the Soviet Union gained total power over Hungary under the leadership of Matyas Rakosi, a symbol of tyranny and oppression.

 MATYAS RAKOSI, seen in 1948 in Budapest, became a symbol of tyranny and oppression.

Experiencing the hell of Babi Yar

Memories of a distant trip to the Soviet Union

 People attend the opening ceremony of a symbolic synagogue in the form of a collapsible wooden structure commemorating the victims of Babyn Yar

What was the Soviet Jewish exodus like? One woman's story told in new book

The stories of the American and Israeli efforts to break the hold on Soviet Jewry are told in a new book.

 Natan Sharansky addresses the book launch of ‘Hidden Heroes’ in Jerusalem on August 31 as author Pamela Braun Cohen looks on.

Soviet Jewry's 'Refusenik' woman, Ida Nudel

The author recounts her experiences with Ida Nudel, the famed heroine of the struggle for the release of Soviet Jewry to emigrate to Israel.

 Ida Nudel is greeted upon her arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport by Natan Sharansky, flanked by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on October 15, 1987.