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


Russian-speaking Jews and countering antisemitism

History shows that hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. The danger of antisemitism to humanity is obvious, therefore our efforts to preserve the memory of the Holocaust are universal.

EAJC President Dr. Mikhael Mirilashvili

Russian-speaking Jews countering antisemitism

On October 3, 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the freedom of speech did not apply to denial of the genocide of Jews during WWII.

New olim from the former Soviet Union are seen arriving at Ben-Gurion Airport.

The hidden heroes that helped save Soviet Jewry - book review

Soviet Jewry’s less famous saviors — How 35 volunteer activists made history behind the scenes.

 DURING A TV interview in Moscow  in 2009, Russian Prime Minister  Vladimir Putin said the JacksonVanik amendment hindered  Russia’s entry to the World Trade  Organization.

Meet the artists behind ‘Yoffi shel Israel’ postcard art

The postcard exhibition, a joint venture of the Yoffi company with ‘The Jerusalem Post,’ displays the work of 36 Soviet-born talented artists

 ‘DRY RIVERBED’ by Anna Berinskii.

One family's journey from Siberia to Israel and owning a business

Yoffi turns the essence of Israeli flavors – such as tehina, honey, dates, nuts, halva, herbal teas and olive oil – into exquisite gifts from the Holy Land.

 THE MAYOFIS FAMILY

Can the struggle for Soviet Jewry help navigate 21st century peoplehood?

Jews in Israel and the US appeared to find some form of unity in the struggle to free Soviet Jewry. This effort gave many Jews a sense of peoplehood.

Natan Sharansky, a former refusenik, Soviet prisoner, and human rights activist who became the Free Soviet Jewry movement's symbol after he was jailed for nine years in a Gulag prison

One woman’s story of resistance and rescue in the Soviet Union - book review

Hidden Heroes: One Woman’s Story of Resistance and Rescue in The Soviet Union by Pamela Braun Cohen is the story of extraordinary people in America and USSR who refused to be seperated.

Pamela Braun Cohen at her book launch in Jerusalem

80th anniversary of JAC: ‘Dual loyalty’ and the persecution of Soviet Jews

JAC was a striking phenomenon of the Soviet era and became one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Soviet Jews.

 Itzik Feffer, Albert Einstein and Solomon Mikhoels (1943)

On this day: 13 Jews killed by Stalin in Night of the Murdered Poets

The killing of Soviet Jewish poets was seen as a crackdown against the Jewish Anti-fascist Committee and part of Stalin's increasingly antisemitic policies before his death.

The Lubyanka building (former KGB headquarters) in Moscow.

How freeing Soviet Jewry can teach us to combat rise in antisemitism

The symposium addressed how unifying Jewish communities and interfaith partnerships could be the key to resolving the current rise in hate crime against Jews.

THE ISRAELI public demands the release of Soviet Jews