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soviet union
Potentially exculpatory testimony unsealed in Rosenberg spy case
Jewish Journal
July 17, 2015
Newly unsealed court records may provide fodder for those who believe Ethel Rosenberg was wrongly convicted and executed.
A rodent flight
Jewish Journal
March 12, 2015
We flew what the 1989 Soviet press branded a rodent flight.
Students get a history lesson on Zev Yaroslavsky’s contributions to Soviet Jewry
Jeffrey Hensiek
November 24, 2014
Last week, the power elite of Los Angeles gathered at Walt Disney Concert Hall to pay homage to retiring L.A. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky.
Jacob Birnbaum, founder of Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, dies
Jewish Journal
April 18, 2014
Jacob Birnbaum, who helped launch the movement to free Soviet Jews, has died at 87.
The real threat to Ukraine’s Jewish community
Jewish Journal
March 26, 2014
After years of fighting against anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union and later in an independent Ukraine, the Ukrainian Jewish community is now confronting a new threat.
Ukraine’s Jews again caught between a rock and a hard place
Jewish Journal
February 24, 2014
Shortly after the demise of the Soviet Union, I received an invitation to participate in a conference in the newly independent Ukraine.
The Mensch List: Bearing witness to Russians’ Holocaust stories
Ryan Torok
January 2, 2014
For the past seven years, Leon Shkrab, 67, has volunteered every week at Bet Tzedek Legal Services, conducting intake interviews in Russian with Holocaust survivors who are applying for Holocaust reparations through the representation of lawyers at the pro bono law firm.
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