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Books

Book review: The Story of Russia - Russia’s story always excluded Jews

Orlando Figes' new work is a truly incisive and important dissection of this country's troubled past

By Colin Shindler

1 min read

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the National Space Centre construction site in Moscow on February 27, 2022. (Photo by Sergei GUNEYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GUNEYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine

In the shadow of Babyn Yar, Ukraine’s Jews return home

By John Sweeney

5 min read

Antisemitism

Nearly half of French Jews tell their children not to reveal religion in public

By Ben Bloch

2 min read

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks to members of the media at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 11, 2022. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia

Israel considers expanding Return law to help Russians flee war

By Felix Pope

2 min read

Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, in the town of Uman, about 200km from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, on September 25, 2022. - Tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims flock despite war to Ukrainian city of Uman for their annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman from Breslov (1772-1810), founder of an ultra-Orthodox movement that settled in Uman in the early 1800s. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine

Despite war and Iranian drones, Chasidic pilgrims flock to Uman

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

Russia

Jewish politician jailed in Russia after comparing Soviet regime to Nazis

By Felix Pope

2 min read

Books

Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master

By David Herman

2 min read

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Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev

SSR leader who aided exodus of Soviet Jews, restored diplomatic relations with Israel and oversaw the bloodless break up of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact

By Andrew Rosemarine

4 min read

September 8, 2022 14:52

By Colin Shindler

Gorbachev’s place in the heart of our people

The former Soviet Union leader transformed the place of Jews in Russia — and let them leave

3 min read

August 31, 2022 17:48

The ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatchev (L) shakes hands with former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's widow Leah, under the gaze of former Israeli Nobel peace prize Shimon Peres (R), 10 January at the memorial in Tel Aviv where Rabin was murdered in 1995. Gorbachev arrived here today to participate in a three-day conference organized by the Peres Center for Peace. A bevy of current and former world leaders will also take part in the event in a bid to breathe economic life into the moribund Middle East peace process. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) / AFP / SVEN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

By Colin Shindler

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

Any lingering deluded hopes for the future under communism where shattered on the Night of the Murdered Poets in 1952

5 min read

August 12, 2022 15:43

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

Children in Ukraine and Russia enjoy stories together in London mum's online book club

UK-based expat Dina Berdnikov has created a 'magical world' that allows Jewish youngsters from both sides connect amid the horror of war

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

August 11, 2022 12:30

Children in Ukraine and Russia enjoy stories together in London mum's online book club

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

English translation of the first novel of a writer whose work elicits profound truths about human nature and its motivations

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

August 11, 2022 10:54

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

By The JC Leader

Putin is using Russian Jews as pawns over Ukraine

The JC Leader, 5 August 2022

1 min read

August 8, 2022 14:27

Putin is using Russian Jews as pawns over Ukraine

By David Aberbach

Kidnapping Ukraine’s children echoes darkest days of the tsars

Putin’s latest evil tactic is all too reminiscent of Jews snatched from their families in Russia’s forced conscription in the 19th century

4 min read

August 4, 2022 12:46

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 08: Boy waits with his mom as people fleeing war-torn Ukraine arrive from Poland at Hauptbahnhof main railway station on March 08, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Over one million people, mainly Ukrainian women and children as well as foreigners living or working in Ukraine, have fled Ukraine as the current Russian military invasion continues to inflict growing casualties on the civilian population. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Get out now: Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky’s warning to Russia’s Jews as crackdown fears grow

The ex-dissident, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons, issued the bleak warning amid an escalation of President Vladimir Putin’s repression of the Jewish Agency

By Felix Pope

3 min read

August 4, 2022 10:07