Tatiana Glezer, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 30, 2022
Editor’s Note: The Jewish Light learned of Russian Jew Tatiana Glezer, 41, and her plight through a network of friends in the United States. Largely fluent in English, she agreed to write her story exclusively for the Light. Many thanks to author and...
Benjamin Ivry, The Forward
• Published February 28, 2022
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Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews...
On Friday, Sept. 28, at the end of one of the busier non-war, non-natural-disaster U.S. news weeks in some time, BuzzFeed.com responded to what it saw as extreme news fatigue among American readers. As a public service, the news site republished a story...
North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho speaks at a meeting with Russian officials in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 31, 2018. (Russian Foreign Press and Information Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Faced with lopsided, veto-proof approval in both houses of Congress, President Donald Trump wisely pledged to sign into law sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. He initially voiced strong opposition to the bill because it would place restrictions...
These are the days that Vladimir Putin has been aching for since the end of the Cold War. On Dec. 5, 1989, three weeks after the Berlin Wall was torn down, angry crowds stormed the Dresden Headquarters of the Stasi, the brutal secret police of the Soviet...
By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published June 6, 2012
The political, historic drama “Little Rose” is one of the many excellent films in this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. “Little Rose,” in Polish and French with English subtitles, is also one of several Polish (or part ly Polish) films...
With Vladimir Putin’s re-election as president of Russia pretty much a foregone conclusion, the question facing Russia was never what would result from last weekend’s election but what would happen after the vote. Thousands of protesters turned out...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Arabs demonstrated against Syrian President Bashar Assad a day after the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning his crackdown on dissenters. The General Assembly voted Feb. 16 by a vote of 137 to 12 with...
‘Way of Heaven' was outstanding NJT play I am disappointed that I have not seen any positive reviews of the play "Way to Heaven" performed by the New Jewish Theatre. In my opinion, the production at the NJT was outstanding and is in fact one of the...
In what should not have been a surprise to those who view the foreign policies of Russia and China in historical context, those two autocratic regimes used their veto to block even a watered-down resolution calling upon Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad...
