Former prisoner of Zion Yosef Begun, reflects on the holiday, past and present: in Soviet Prison, on his exile to Siberia years later, and f

Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.

A lesson that encourages critical and independent thinking for students. In this lesson you can use a ready-made presentation that includes

The role of the women who stood up in defense of Soviet Jews and those women denied the right to leave the USSR.

#OnlineLessons #CivicStudies #Discussions #Videos #Music #MiddleSchool #HighSchool A personal word about the lesson Growing up on Jewish social activism, I remember, clearly, my youth group participation in the March for Soviet Jewry. I looked forward to sharing as much as I could about this issue with my students. As we started learning, I saw the girls were keenly interested and fully participating. Encouraged by this, I expanded the lesson to several c

We had a lively discussion about whether or not my students would have done the same, knowing they would be arrested?

The video tells the story of Soviet “refuseniks,” Jews in the former Soviet Union who were denied access to emigrate to Israel.

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The spiritual connection between world Jewry: how Soviet Jewry inspired Jews in the free world to make Aliyah. Talk about the role, influenc

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What similarities can you draw between the Purim story from of the Book of Esther and Stalin’s Jews persecution, which ended with his death?

when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...