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Protests shake Iran: The US must choose its next move wisely - opinion

Tehran’s streets erupt with defiance. Will Washington support change or repeat past mistakes with Iran’s regime?

 FILE PHOTO: Protesters shout slogans during a demonstration following the death of Mahsa Amini in Iran, in Istanbul, Turkey, October 2, 2022.
SOVIET WRITER-JOURNALIST Ilya Ehrenburg with Soviet soldiers, 1942. His daughter found a copy of the manuscript or ‘black book’ in her father’s archive in 1967. ‘The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry’ was published in Kiev in 1991.

Roots of the Holocaust: Fascist barbarism and vicious 1920s anti-Bolshevik propaganda - book review

 NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV (R) and Leonid Brezhnev wave from Lenin’s Tomb in Moscow after announcing that Khrushchev was resigning as first secretary of the Communist Party and Brezhnev was taking over the role, 1964.

The enigma of Nikita Khrushchev: Unravelling the Soviet leader's views on Israel, Zionism

 NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV during a meeting with Kiev residents, after the liberation of the city from the Nazi occupation, Nov. 30, 1943.

Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry


New program brings history of Holocaust in USSR to Israeli students

GPG program to be operated with Beit Lohamei Haghetaot

Ghetto Fighters' House Museum

Red Army veterans commemorate VE Day with IFCJ and Matav

VE Day marks the day the Soviet Union’s Red Army defeated Nazi Germany.

Red Army veteran Israel Berber

Why does Israel celebrate VE Day on a different date to Europe?

While most western European countries hold Victory in Europe celebrations on May 8, the official end of the conflict, Israel holds its commemorations on May 9.

Crowds on VE-Day in Toronto, Canada, May 1945

‘Black January’ became the starting point of Azerbaijan’s independence

Despite bloody events in Baku, the day of January 20, 1990, became a page of heroism in the history of the struggle for the independence and territorial integrity of Azerbaijan.

THE FLAME Towers in Baku are a symbol of the new and independent Azerbaijan.

Reflecting on Raoul Wallenberg’s fate 75 years after his disappearance

On January 17, 1945 – 75 years ago – Raoul Wallenberg was arrested by the Soviet military intelligence apparatus, never to be seen again.

Raoul Wallenberg

Letters of Jews from the USSR, 1941-1945

The letters, which were found in Yad Vashem’s Archive as well as other archives and translated into English, open a window into the world of Soviet Jewish thoughts and feelings at that time.

Dr. Akadi Zeltser in Yad Vashem's Valley of the Communities

Soviet spy who allegedly thwarted Nazi plot to murder Roosevelt dies

She was involved in Operation Long-Jump was an alleged Nazi plot to murder Stalin, Roosevelt and Truman during the 1943 Tehran Summit.

FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT

The housewives who took on the USSR to help Soviet Jewry

How a women's protest group made a difference by raising the cause of Soviet Jewish political prisoners during the Cold War.

A protest by The 35's on behalf of Prisoners of Zion held in the USSR, Montreal, 1976. Photo by Bill Brennan, the Wendy Eisen Collection: The Canadian 35's, the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

Many of the university's programs address gender equality, health and domestic violence.

THE ISRAELI public demands the release of Soviet Jews

Passion and Judaism on parade in St. Petersburg

The Iron Curtain has long parted as hundreds of involved Jews descend on Russia’s cultural capital for the Limmud FSU festival.

A joyous havdala with Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler (left) taking part