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.
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 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.