A refusenik details her journey out of the USSR.
She “played a decisive role in maintaining strong ties between Jewish activists in the Soviet Union and the Jewish world,” Natan Sharansky said.
Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican California congressman and a candidate for Secretary of State, clashed with a Moldovan-born Jewish news anchor over Putin’s human rights record.
Gal Beckerman, Forward’s opinion editor and author of “When They Come For Us We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” the defining book on Soviet Jewry, talks about meeting the refuseniks who attempted to hijack a plane and draw attention to the troubles of Russian Jews.