

🎶 Longing for Zion - Through the Song “The Land is in My Dreams”
Explore the spiritual connection between Soviet Jewry and Jews in the free world through music – and how this connection inspired renewed identity, solidarity, and Aliyah. Discuss the global significance of the State of Israel.


1948: The Need For A Jewish State (or: Golda's visit in Moscow on 1948 Rosh HaShana)
when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in Rosh Hashana 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...


Slideshow and writing exercise: Jewish holidays behind the Iron Curtain
there was a real danger in celebrating Jewish holidays - many were arrested without actual crime, and sent to the Gulag under the false accu


Film screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentary
Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.


Read & discuss: 13 year old against the KGB (short story)
Introduction and background on life in the Soviet Union in the 1970s through the perspective of a young girl.
How to stay true to ideals und
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