Ukraine on my mind: Tina Grimberg, who’s now a rabbi in Toronto, reflects on growing up in Kyiv
In my childhood memory I lean into her full Ukrainian breast. I play with Raya Golub’s necklace. It is made of amber, a stone of an ancient sap that captured in its tear—a twig, a leaf, an insect and even me. In the last four weeks of this ugly war (and all wars are ugly) […]
Shternshis: When Jewish humour divides us
“What do we do today, when political borders and hundreds of years of separate histories have divided Jewish people into groups that can laugh at each other, but not with each other?”
Museum of Jewish Montreal exhibit recalls artist’s dissident Soviet ancestor
A trove of letters written by Soviet dissident Mikhail Baitalsky to his daughter in Israel are the subject of a new exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Montreal.
How a team of future NHL stars smuggled Judaica into the U.S.S.R.
In this week’s cover story, David Kitai writes about how the 1983 Canadian national junior hockey team smuggled in Judaica into the U.S.S.R.
Miracles and redemption can be limiting without a struggle
“For me, Hanukkah holds a special place, as the story of the cruel religious oppression faced by our ancestors under the ancient Assyrian-Greeks is not dissimilar to what my fellow Jews and I faced behind the iron curtain in the Soviet Union. “
Marmur: Coming of age in the rubble of war
In a very personal column, Rabbi Dow Marmur recalls receiving his Jewish education in Poland, post World War II.
My clandestine mission to support Soviet Jews
In January 1981, I went to Moscow to meet with Soviet Jews. It was all very extraordinary and secretive.
The miracle of Soviet Jewry
In Soviet Jewry we see the story of survival against all odds, the miracle of light persevering against the worst kind of darkness, play out not over thousands of years, but over the course of a single century.
An insider’s story of Soviet-Jewish activism
We Are Jews Again is a detailed account of the stories of Soviet Jews who lived under the Soviet Union and who fought to keep Judaism alive in a society that shunned religion.
Filmmaker documents parents’ attempt to escape USSR
Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov has dreamt of making a documentary about her parents’ attempted escape from the USSR, which eventually brought them to Israel,for many years.
