Groups on both sides of the issue have published open letters making arguments grounded in their experiences behind the Iron Curtain

Freedom of information request yields stunning revelation that leadership recruited the well-organized but widely loathed proselytizing group to help organize and bolster crowds

A covert note in 1974 Moscow led to David Harris secretly helping refuseniks, and set him on a path to 32 years as AJC's CEO and quietly setting the stage for the Abraham Accords

Yelena Lembersky's 'Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour' is a surprisingly even-handed tale of escape from the Iron Curtain with her grandfather's famous Babyn Yar massacre paintings

Known as 'Guardian Angel' for humanitarian work on behalf of Zionist prisoners held in Soviet Union, Nudel moved to Israel after receiving the exit visa she spent years pursuing

Anat Zalmanson-Kutznetsov, whose parents tried to hijack a plane to escape the Iron Curtain, launches educational initiative focused on unique bipartisan campaign to free USSR Jews

Politician was staunch supporter of Soviet Jews and helped to secure release of high-profile dissidents in 1987; was targeted in Palestinian terrorist plot