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.
Click Here to Read: Zionism and Bolshevism: In 1917, two answers to Russia’s ‘Jewish Question’ swept west and helped transform the world By Chimen Abramsky on the Tablet website on December 17, 2020.
Illustrated Sunday Herald article by Winston S. Churchill. Image: old Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: A Hanukkah Tale From Old Russia: A mysterious czarist soldier tries to persuade his community he’s Jewish by Curt Leviant on the Tablet website on December 16, 2020. Hanukkah menorah, Russia, 1890, brass, National Museum of American Jewish History. Imagea: Wmpearl Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: The Event That Sparked the Movement to Free Soviet Jewry: Fifty years ago, the Leningrad Trial spurred the American Jewish community to action by Glenn Richter and Avi Weiss on the Tablet website on December 15, 2020. Jewish Emgiration from the USSR, before and after the First Leningrad Trial.. Image: Azk0702 Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
