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.

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.

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.

Israel

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

Global

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

Ideas

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

Global

How a single mom revolutionized Moldova’s Jewish community

United States

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

Global

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

Global

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

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