Click Here to Read: Hijacking History: Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel. Eerily, their story is relevant again—this time, for American Jews by Izabella Tabarovsky on the Tablet website on December 24, 2020.
Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.