former Soviet Union

Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi calls former Soviet immigrants ‘religion-hating gentiles’

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef accused the state of deliberately inviting Soviet immigrants to Israel to weaken the political power of the haredi Orthodox.

By Marcy Oster January 7, 2020 1:33 pm

Up to a quarter of Russian immigrants to Israel may have left after receiving passports

A cottage industry of companies promising expedited Israeli citizenship has sprung up since Israel made it easier for immigrants to get the much-desired travel document.

December 17, 2019 2:38 pm

Rabbis are making it harder for Israeli immigrants to prove they’re Jewish, study says

Citizens whose families immigrated as part of the Soviet exodus are subject to investigations they describe as humiliating and unnecessary.

July 24, 2019 3:09 pm

Israel’s interior minister ripped as racist for tirade against Soviet immigrants

By Marcy Oster March 6, 2019 2:15 pm

Soviet immigration, once a bane of Germany’s Jews, has become their salvation

By Cnaan Liphshiz December 10, 2018 1:17 pm

Opinion

The war never ended for poor, elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union

By David Schizer May 2, 2017 2:31 pm

How a single mom revolutionized Moldova’s Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 8, 2017 3:47 pm

Jews with roots in former Soviet Union protest Trump’s planned refugee ban

January 27, 2017 11:38 am

IFCJ, JDC to distribute $52 million in humanitarian aid to Jews in former Soviet Union

September 26, 2016 7:58 am

Why Uzbekistan’s Jews already miss the iron fist of their late ruler

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 13, 2016 12:45 pm

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