Japan Advertiser reports that the first president of the Far Eastern Republic is a Jew, born in Russia, and rising to political heights in Siberia.
50 years ago Dec. 20, 1946
The U.S. War and Navy departments laud B’nai B’rith as the greatest Jewish service organization in the world.
25 years ago Dec. 24, 1971
A substantial group of representatives of the women’s branch of the Bay Area Council on Soviet Jewry sponsor a Chanukah freedom vigil in front of the San Francisco residence of the Soviet Consul General Alexander Zinchuk.
10 years ago Dec. 26, 1986
Bay Area Soviet Jewry activists have cheered the release of Soviet dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner from exile in the USSR.