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Natan Sharansky

Natan Sharansky, Chairman of the executive of the Jewish Agency for Israel, was a founding member of the Moscow Helsinki Group and spent nine years in the Gulag for his human rights activities.

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    How Can Jews Support Ukraine After the Holocaust?

    An exchange between Bernard-Henri Lévy and Natan Sharansky, from the recent Tablet event in partnership with the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine

    byNatan SharanskyandBernard-Henri Lévy
  • Israeli soldiers pray with their national flags at the Western Wall on June 5, 2016 in Jerusalem's old city, as they celebrate Jerusalem Day, that marks the anniversary of the 'reunification' of the holy city after Israel captured the Arab eastern sector from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War.
    Israeli soldiers pray with their national flags at the Western Wall on June 5, 2016 in Jerusalem's old city, as they celebrate Jerusalem Day, that marks the anniversary of the 'reunification' of the holy city after Israel captured the Arab eastern sector from Jordan during the 1967 Six-Day War.
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    The Kotel Compromise: An Opportunity Not to Be Missed

    How a failure to come to an agreement to allow equal access to the holy site for the non-Orthodox would reverberate across world Jewry

    byNatan Sharansky
  • Moscow Helsinki Group members Yuliya Vishnevskya, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Dina Kaminskaya and Kronid Lyubarsky in Munich, 1978
    Moscow Helsinki Group members Yuliya Vishnevskya, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Dina Kaminskaya and Kronid Lyubarsky in Munich, 1978
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    Why Political Prisoners Matter

    The Soviet refusenik recalls the politics that led to the founding of the Helsinki Group 40 years ago today

    byNatan Sharansky
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    A Eulogy for Vladimir Slepak

    Natan Sharansky remembers his ‘loyal and dependable friend,’ Jewish refusenik and leader, who died yesterday

    byNatan Sharansky
  • Natan Sharansky being released during a prisoner exchange in Berlin, February 11, 1986.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)
    Natan Sharansky being released during a prisoner exchange in Berlin, February 11, 1986.(STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Camp Fire

    In his memoir, the famous refusenik remembered celebrating Hanukkah in the Soviet Gulag

    byNatan Sharansky
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