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From Darkness to Light: The Journey of Natan Sharansky
Duration:5 Minutes Link A brief video highlighting the story of Natan Sharansky.
May 29, 2018
L’Chayim Roundtable: Soviet Jewry March 1987 Remembered
Duration:30 Minutes Link The founders of Freedom 25 recount their experiences being involved in the movement to free Soviet Jewry
Thirty Years After the March To Save Soviet Jewry
Duration:1 Minutes Link On December 6, 1987, some 250,000 American Jews gathered in Washington, D.C. to protest the plight of their Soviet brethren.
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May 28, 2018
Soviet Jewish History (Essential Lectures in Jewish History) Dr. Henry Abramson
Duration:17 Minutes Link A brief overview of Soviet Jewish History.
Freedom 25: A lesson in Human Rights, Never to be Forgotten
Duration:7 minutes Link The impact of American Jewry and the future of the Refuseniks was forever impacted on December 6, 1987. “Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews” curved the path to religious and political freedom for Soviet Jewry.
Antisemitism The Dark Side of Glastnost, The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Duration:16 Minutes Link Firsthand accounts of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.
Freedom 25: Rekindling the Soviet Jewry Movement
Duration:3 Minutes Link An explanation of the Freedom 25 initiative and the importance of teaching and preserving the legacy of the Soviet Jewry Movement
Mothers For Freedom, The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Duration: 17 minutes Link This film highlights the story of three of the 200 mothers of refuseniks who were separated from their children and grandchildren for decades before being allowed to emigrate to Israel.
L’Chayim: Soviet Refusenik, Yosef Mendelevich
Duration:1.5 Hours Link Yosef Mendelevich, refusenik and prisoner of zion tells his personal story of growing up in the USSR, attempting to hijack a plane to Israel, and his religious journey in this hour and a half long interview.
May 16, 2018
When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone by Gal Beckerman
Duration:4 Minutes Link Gal Beckerman explains the greater significance of the fight for Soviet Jewry and his impetus for writing his book “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone.
May 15, 2018
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