Soviet Jewry

Iran’s 400% espionage surge in Israel: Rising threats and societal vulnerabilities - opinion

Israeli security foils numerous Iranian spying attempts, but intelligence damage exposes a growing national vulnerability.

FEBRUARY 23, 2026|ByRACHEL AVRAHAM

An illustrative image of an Iranian agent in the backdrop of an Iranian flag.

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

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.

FEBRUARY 18, 2026|ByAVIHAI CHIIM

'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

FEBRUARY 10, 2026|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.

FEBRUARY 8, 2026|ByCOLIN SHINDLER

Deciding life or death: Polish Jews and the wartime Soviet Union dilemma

Become modified Soviet citizens (which effectively required them to leave the area) or retain Polish citizenship and return to the territory controlled by Germany?

MARCH 11, 2021By GLENN C. ALTSCHULER

THE SOLOVETSKY Monastery in northern Russia is known as the ‘mother of the Gulag,’ having been converted into a Soviet prison and labor camp and used as a model for other such camps during the Stalin era

The surprising story of Jewish revival in the Former Soviet Union

Russia itself and also included Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Georgia have seen an increase in Hillel centers.

MARCH 10, 2021ByNEVILLE TELLER

70 Brooklyn yeshivas supported by laundered money - report

Since the early 2000s, two Miami businessmen have run a "commercial empire," as Radio Free Europe report puts it, answering to the Ukranian-Israeli billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyy.

MARCH 7, 2021BySARAH BEN-NUN

Ihor Kolomoyskyy speaks during an interview in Dnipropetrovsk May 24, 2014.

George Shultz hailed by Jewish leaders for helping free Soviet Jews

“He felt a special bond to the American Jewish community. Everyone could sense his humility, his integrity, the sincerity of his views, and his commitment and support for Israel."

FEBRUARY 19, 2021ByLARRY LUXNER/JTA

George Shultz, with book, at a 2017 Limmud FSU conference with, from left to right, Julius Berman, Natan Sharansky and Chaim Chesler.

Isi Leibler: A man with many missions

Leibler is arguably best known in Australia for championing the cause of Soviet Jewry.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

AUSTRALIAN RELATIONS with the Soviets: Soviet ambassador Vitaly Loginov presents his credentials to the governor-general at Government House, Canberra, in 1963.

Isi Leibler: Saving Soviet Jews and helping Israeli-Asian ties

His memories span almost a century that took the Jewish story from Eastern Europe to Antwerp, Melbourne and then to Jerusalem, through the struggles he fought for Jews in the Soviet Union and Israel.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021BySETH J. FRANTZMAN