Part memoir, part travelogue, part cultural history, an acclaimed new book about the legacy of the Holocaust and Communism also reveals the generational biases of its author.

An amendment sponsored in 1989 by U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, who passed away this week, enabled thousands of Soviet Jews to build new lives in America.

On the occasion of the 2013 Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award, a video commemorates Avital Sharansky's nine-year campaign to free her imprisoned husband, sparking. . .