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