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

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.

MAY 28, 2021ByHADASSAH BRENNER

THE ISRAELI public demands the release of Soviet Jews

June 1967, Moscow: A personal view of the Soldiers of Zion in Russia

As the Six-Day War played out in the Middle East, Soviet Jews looked on with their fate up in the air.

MAY 24, 2021ByYOSEF BEGUN

President Ronald Reagan with Yosef Begun (right)

Conversion conundrum: The fight over symbolism, the neglect of the problem

Ever since some one million immigrants came to Israel from former Soviet countries, a battle has been waged over conversion.

MAY 13, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON

A WOMAN seeking to convert to Judaism appears before Rabbinic Court in Jerusalem

Yitzhak Arad: Hero and historian

“We are deeply saddened by the loss of Dr. Yitzhak Arad, a man who’s legacy will forever stay with us."

MAY 9, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Yitzhak Arad, former IDF chief education officer, and former chairman of Yad Vashem

Tribute to Judith and Eliott Cohen, pillars of Atlanta's Jewish community

There are many people like the Cohens who made a huge commitment to the grassroots struggle for Soviet Jews and should be remembered.

APRIL 29, 2021ByJONATHAN FELDSTEIN

Isi Leibler: Unsung hero of the Jewish people's finest hour

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Playing first violin in the struggle for Soviet Jewry.

APRIL 15, 2021ByAMOTZ ASA-EL

Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israel to commemorate victims of Nazi genocide

Yad Vashem has designated the theme of this year’s events to be the commemoration of the onset of the mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazi regime after its invasion of the Soviet Union.

APRIL 6, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON

Educating the next generation about the Holocaust in the Former Soviet Union

Yad Vashem opens exhibition 80 years since Operation Barbarossa

A new online exhibition tells unpublished accounts of Jewish families caught up in the horror of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the onset of the Holocaust.

APRIL 4, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON