A new symbol at some Passover seders: an empty seat for Evan Gershkovich, Jewish journalist jailed in Russia Gershkovich, a New York native and the son of Soviet Jewish refugees to the United States, is a Moscow correspondent with the Wall Street Journal.
How an accidental activist became the ‘foreign minister of the Jewish people’ David Harris, stepping down after 32 years as head of the American Jewish Committee, looks back at the Soviet Jewry movement that shaped him.
Natan Sharansky recalls when 250,000 Jews rallied for Soviet Jewry 30 years ago "I knew the power of American Jewish solidarity," the former refusnik recalled this week.
