The great Soviet dissident and refusenik talks about discovering Hebrew, foiling the KGB, and surviving the ‘banya’

National Poetry Month: A long-anticipated new collection infuses beauty and irony into a dystopian war epic

Russian Jews used Christmas trees as weapons to fight back against the Kremlin’s war on religion

Whether they’re the hand-bound sheets my mother took when we emigrated from the Soviet Union, or the synagogue sisterhood collection I still use to make latkes, cookbooks contain more than ingredients—they contain whole Jewish lives

Newly digitized recordings offer an unprecedented glimpse of the Ukrainian-Jewish past

Rokhl’s Golden City: Jewish Bolsheviks, Yiddish songs, ‘Comrade Stalin,’ and the year that changed the world

My winding journey through music mirrored my journey of Jewish discovery

How a liberal mayor learned to embrace Jews’ international and cultural concerns to court their vote, and changed New York City politics

As the Civil Rights activist and former Brandeis president nears his centennial, are we any closer to his goals for liberty and justice for all within the law?

‘Operation Wedding’ is directed by Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov, whose parents led the Leningrad plane hijacking that was ultimately foiled by the KGB

The epic story of how one American Jew became ‘twinned’ with a coreligionist in Soviet Russia he eventually helped bring to freedom—and why it taught him so much about true resistance and activism

Independence Day is doubly special for the legendary refusenik Natan Sharansky and his family. He sits down for a wide-ranging interview about his wife Avital, love among Jewish people, and the promise of freedom.

‘Incident at Vichy,’ a play about rounding up Jews and Roma, held lessons for Soviet Refuseniks

Acclaimed Israeli writer and poet brought Jewish music to the masses 

The ardent Zionist and devoted Jewish civil servant died last week at age 100

The secret story of a secular celebration