Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel.

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.

Doctors detail Navalny poison treatment in medical journal

Click Here to Read: Doctors detail Navalny poison treatment in medical journal on the Association Press website on
December 23, 2020.
Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, at Central Election Commission’s session which is about to deny his right to be in the ballot on the upcoming presidential elections Image: Evgeny Feldman.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.