Anatoliy Daron, who recently died in US at 94, fled two Nazi massacres, lost his job in the Doctors' Plot, then, while living in a cramped shared flat, invented Sputnik's engine

87-year-old Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who survived WWII hiding in the Urals and later became a sharpshooter for her country's military: 'This symbol unites our whole society'

A new program co-sponsored by the Israeli government and Limmud FSU is fostering innovation that will help grow local Jewish life and build bridges with the Jewish state

Max Malkiel's homestyle cooking tutorials have earned him well over 100,000 subscribers across Israel, Russia and the US, but he claims his wife is the better cook

Access Wednesday’s Behind the Headlines webinar by becoming a ToI Community member and hear co-authors Natan Sharansky and Gil Troy discuss prison, politics and the Jewish people

Efraim Zuroff and Ruta Vanagaite chronicle a partnership and budding friendship as they seek to convince her countrymen to face a genocide perpetrated in part by their forebears

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, 37, emerges as unlikely challenger to dictator's 26-year rule, holding largest opposition rallies since Soviet era; says she is 'symbol of change'

Built as house of prayer for kosher butchers in 1909, structure passed through Nazi and KGB hands and has been a JCC since 1991 -- but may not survive new construction project

Young adults working with the JDC spur initiative to distribute free handheld computers to give older Jews in forced isolation a necessary community connection

Controversial method began in Moscow, spread to Jerusalem and Sydney, as a private bid to confirm ex-Soviets as Jews. Now it faces a High Court challenge and a thunderous outcry