As Russian Jews, our family always celebrated Novy God—and we always did it by baking my favorite cake

For Ukrainian and Russian Jews, the past three decades now seem like a brief flash of light between two long periods of darkness

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.

Women’s History Month: Pauline Wengeroff, the late-19th-century Russian grandmother and memoirist who saw through the emerging patriarchy in Eastern Europe, was no Betty Friedan

The Russian president and Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar write letters to the Jews of Russia

A new biography of the Gunzburgs reminds us that not all Russian Jews were persecuted revolutionaries

What lessons can we learn from them today?

A portrait of my father, the refusenik writer and medical scientist David Shrayer-Petrov, as a New England poet, on his 84th birthday

I knew it was out there somewhere

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

JetLAG, the largest open-air Russian music gathering in the United States, is an archipelago of post-Soviet affinity groups nestled on the banks of the Делавэр River in the Catskills

The rules enforced by Israel’s evermore extreme Rabbinate punish Russian Jews who come to the country to escape religious persecution

How the center of a Russian-guitar culture ended up in the American Midwest, under the stewardship of its greatest enthusiast

Young Russian Jews who commit to regular study can attend European trips they could’ve only dreamed of. Might Birthright be able to learn something?

An émigré travels in Chile with his wife and daughters