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Soviet Jewry

Jewish LearningWorks’ David Waksberg speaking to a group of Jewish educators. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish LearningWorks)
Posted inNews

Class dismissed: Jewish LearningWorks CEO David Waksberg retires

by Dan Pine May 28, 2020June 12, 2020
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi lays a wreath during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem, Israel on January 23, 2020. (Pool/Getty Images)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

At Auschwitz event, Pelosi recalls protesting for the release of Soviet Jews

by Ron Kampeas and JTA January 27, 2020January 27, 2020
The Grand Choral Synagogue in St. Petersburg, Russia (Photo/Wikimedia-Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov CC BY-SA 4.0)
Posted inThe Matzo Chronicles

21 years old in the USSR — that’s when I became a Jew

Karen Galatz by Karen Galatz October 16, 2019
The Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews held daily vigils in front of the Soviet Consulate, like this one in Nov. 1986, to protest the USSR policies that made it difficult for Jews to leave Russia. (Photos/Tom Wachs)
Posted inLocal Voice

You know who else separated families trying to cross borders? The Soviets.

by David Waksberg June 29, 2018June 26, 2019
Israeli tanks cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo/Wikimedia-Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inIsrael at 70

An eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah, Soviet Jewry and more

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 19, 2018
Jews from the former Soviet Union and their descendants gathered for Limmud FSU in Oakland, Nov. 17-19 (Photo/Kate Fim)
Posted inUncategorized, Bay Area

Playing ‘Where’s Natan?’ while celebrating Russian Jewish culture

Jenni Frazer by Jenni Frazer November 20, 2017November 21, 2017
Reagan-era secretary of state George Shultz was honored in Oakland in Nov. 2017 for his role in helping Soviet Jewry in the 1980s. (Photo/Kate Fim)
Posted inNews

Honoring George Shultz, sec. of state who never gave up on Soviet Jews

Jenni Frazer by Jenni Frazer November 20, 2017November 21, 2017
In 1987, the Jewish Bulletin (J.'s previous name) reported on Alla Korot, who won the Miss Teen California pageant that year.
Posted inJewish Life

When a Soviet Jewish émigré was ‘California Miss Teen’

by J. Staff November 20, 2017November 20, 2017
Jewish organizations during the May Day demonstration at Marsovo Pole in Petrograd, Russia, 1919. (Photo/Courtesy Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center)
Posted inNews

100 years later: What was the role of Jews in the 1917 Russian Revolution?

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz November 7, 2017March 19, 2018
Editorial cartoon from Feb. 20, 1987
Posted inJewish Life

When Sharansky visited S.F. for the first time, newly freed from Soviet prison

by J. Staff November 5, 2017November 3, 2017

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