'Song Searcher,' a new film about Moyshe Beregovsky, the Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930-40s, is all too relevant today

Jewish people who left the Soviet Union maintain the 'yolka' tree tradition, celebrating the secular symbol connected to Novy God, or the Russian New Year

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'

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

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

After Cathedral of Russian Armed Forces almost unveiled a mural of late dictator on June 22, Moscow-born former MK Ksenia Svetlova explores a troubling new trend of Stalin worship

Florida Democrat Ted Deutch shows off his workplace to Ramah campers, staff and alumni from all over the US

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

The former Soviet dissident, turned Israeli politician and two-term Jewish Agency chief, will donate his $1 million prize and focus efforts on combating rising anti-Semitism