For Soviet Jews in Queens, a deli brings a taste of home—right down to the pork products

Decades after Soviet Jews won their freedom, Washington still uses the Jackson-Vanik amendment to squeeze Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries

As a child, I yearned to leave southern Brooklyn’s enclave of Soviet Jewish immigrants. But watching old home movies decades later, I saw the place in a new light.

Trying to recreate a recipe for a treat my mother remembered from her childhood in Leningrad

As an immigrant from the Soviet Union, I had trouble adjusting to life as an American Jew

Soviet Jews stood up to anti-Zionism once before. Now they are helping the younger generation of American Jews—including their own children—fight back against a wave of defamation and hate, while mainstream Jewish organizations wilt.

Composed before 16 Soviet Jews attempted to hijack a small plane in 1970, this declaration calls out the U.N. for turning a blind eye to their human rights and pleads for the Jewish world not to take its freedom for granted

Fifty years ago today in Leningrad, a small group of Soviet Jews was tried for attempting a daring escape to Israel. Eerily, their story is relevant again—this time, for American Jews.

Fifty years ago, the Leningrad Trial spurred the American Jewish community to action

The Odessa-born comedian Mikhail Zhvanetsky was the Seinfeld of everyday Soviet misery and humiliation. His last joke came from beyond the grave.

Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pechersky led a successful prisoner revolt at the Sobibor death camp. His story of extraordinary courage was also the story of millions of Soviet Jews who lived and died in a country that refused to acknowledge their fate.

In Memory of R. Adin Even Israel Steinsaltz

Remembering Ilia Salita’s formative years in Moscow

Zoya Cherkassky’s ‘return to reality’

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