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


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.

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.