former Soviet Union

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

Aryeh Deri says hundreds of thousands are not Jewish according to rabbinic law and wants to make it more difficult for them to make aliyah.

By Marcy Oster March 6, 2019 2:15 pm

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

A painful culture clash has given way to an energized community one generation later.

December 10, 2018 1:17 pm

Opinion

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

Elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union have confronted five almost unimaginable challenges, writes the CEO of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

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

IFCJ announces project to bring olim from FSU, countries in crisis

October 6, 2014 6:23 am

Interfaith group sends matzah to needy FSU Jews

April 10, 2014 9:49 am

Limmud FSU, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews partnering

March 30, 2014 2:54 pm

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