Soviet Jewry

Herzog: Israel must do more for immigrants from the Former Soviet Union

The event, a salute to FJC’s network of schools, synagogues, and youth programs across the former Soviet space, featured personal testimony illustrating the stakes for families uprooted by conflict.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog at an event hosted by the Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC) of the Former Soviet Union in Jerusalem, November 8, 2025.
Dr Haim Ben Yaakov

Repatriation (Aliyah): From Soviet Underground to a Conflict-Free Double Loyalty

NEW YORK’S Jewish community marches beneath the banner ‘We shall not be silent’ during the Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry demonstration in protest at the Soviet Union’s treatment of Jewish people, in New York City, in 1975.

Yom Kippur War: How the Book of Isaiah spurred world Jewry to back Israel, refusniks in 1973

Ilan Sinelnikov

25 ViZionaries: Ilan Sinelnikov - No. 25


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.

 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.

 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.

 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

 Aharon Barak

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

 Ronald Lauder

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

 Dr. Mikhail Mirilashvili

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

 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.


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.


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.