In assessing my own liberation, I recall a conformity that feels terrifyingly familiar today

A conversation with Natan Sharansky, Rod Dreher, and Bari Weiss

A conversation with Natan Sharansky, author of ‘Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People’

What lessons can we learn from them today?

My father, Natan Sharansky, lived through his own Exodus. The seminal Passover text taught me how to tell his story.

Extraordinary photographs of a refusenik picnic in 1974, when Soviet Jews were far from free

A reporter who knew the late Arizona senator throughout his political career remembers an imperfect man who tried to do what was right

Alon Nechushtan’s new jazz-opera ‘Survival Codes’ mythologizes the sacred languages that kept Soviet Jewry alive

Our elites are useless, but there are many friends to be had elsewhere

The Jewish Diaspora versus the national-policy interests of the Jewish state: a dispatch from a confounding forum on the rise and spread of an old hatred

Symbolic commemoration of a massacre is subsumed in national politics

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

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.

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

Few details are known about the covert operation, which successfully led 19 Yemeni Jews to Israel. One of them, a rabbi, brought a 500-year-old Torah scroll with him.