The Communist Party’s powerful electoral showing this week has generated strong feelings of uncertainty among Russia’s Jews about their country’s future. When the returns from Sunday’s parliamentary elections first came in, voices of alarm were sounded within Russia’s Jewish community, estimated at between 500,000 to 2 million people. Early returns gave the Communist Party the […]

A 76-year old Bukharan Jew in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, has been saved by the Internet. Iosif Koinov, who had been accused of murder, was recently informed that the case against him has been officially closed. After Koinov was arrested and charged with murder last year, his plight was publicized by the Union of Councils for Soviet […]