In June 1970, fourteen Soviet Jews tried to steal an airplane to fly themselves to freedom. A new documentary marks their story—and Natan Sharansky reminisces.
Giving a voice to the living and the dead.
An anniversary in more ways than one.
Lessons of the Helsinki movement.
A reminder that freedom itself is irrepressible.
A sad moment in American higher education.
Lighting the menorah in the Gulag.
A lesson from the refuseniks.
How to unmask those who claim they’re just criticizing Israel.
The U.S. has a long history of supporting despotic regimes in the Middle East in the name of stability. They have also been surprised when. . .
The famed writer and former Soviet dissident, who now chairs the Jewish Agency for Israel, talks about the importance of Jewish nationalism in an allegedly. . .
David Bezmozgis’s The Betrayers tells the story of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet refusenik-turned-Israeli politician, and his encounter with Vladimir Tankilevich, the man who betrayed Kotler. . .
As a liberal democracy, Israel is rightly held, and holds itself, to a higher standard in warfare than its adversaries; too bad the other democracies. . .
“If American politicians had treated [Andrei] Sakharov the way American leaders today are treating Egyptian dissidents, the Soviet Union might still exist.” (Interview by David Horovitz.)