Films & VideosFilm screening & discussion – Operation Wedding documentaryLeningrad, 1970. A group of young Soviet Jews who were denied exit visas, plots to “hijack” an empty plane and escape the USSR.
Jewish Calendar1948 Rosh Hashana: The Need For A Jewish State when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in Rosh Hashana 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...
SlideshowsSlideshow and writing exercise: Jewish holidays behind the Iron Curtainthere was a real danger in celebrating Jewish holidays - many were arrested without actual crime, and sent to the Gulag under the false accu
Jewish CalendarHome-made miracles of HanukkahFormer prisoner of Zion Yosef Begun, reflects on the holiday, past and present: in Soviet Prison, on his exile to Siberia years later, and f
Jewish CalendarThe death of Stalin in Purim 1953, compared to HamanWhat similarities can you draw between the Purim story from of the Book of Esther and Stalin’s Jews persecution, which ended with his death?
Art and DramaPurim Musical Play: THE STORY OF ESTHERThe events of this musical belong to history. It is a very recent history, yet it happened in a world that is gone.
Jewish CalendarNext Year In... Moscow ? - The Red HaggadahA special Haggadah was written and distributed in the USSR in which the cry for revolution, not Jerusalem, was was brought to the table.
Jewish CalendarSharansky's matzah in Soviet Solitary confinement The Haggadah's words were felt as KGB agents surrounded them. Later he would "celebrate" Passover in the Gulag.
Music and PoetrySing in Hebrew, “Blue and White are the colors of my land" A music lesson: sing in Hebrew (beginner), and discuss the lyrics meaning and source.
Music and Poetry[Tisha B’Av] Hebrew poetry & song (adv): Won’t you ask after, O Zion, the weal of your captive?Associated with the tragedy of Tisha B’Av — the long Jewish exile — and its grand Zionist “correction” with the emergence of the State of Is