JERUSALEM (AP) — Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, a religious educator who survived a brutal Gulag in Siberia and secretly taught Judaism under an oppressive Soviet regime, has died in Israel. He was 84. The ...

“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

Stepan Solzhenitsyn told The Associated Press his father died late Sunday at his home near Moscow, but declined further comment. Through unflinching accounts of the years he spent in the Soviet gulag, ...

Pro-Israel demonstrators gather in front of Columbia University on August 27, 2024, to hold an "Unmask Campus Hate" protest at the start of the academic year in New York City. Getty Images Having ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexei Navalny appeared on video link from a penal colony at a Moscow appeal court hearing in May 2022 - EVGENIA ...

Walter Ciszek, S.J., arrives at America House on West 56th Street in New York City after his release by the Soviet Union in 1963. (Photo courtesy of America Media) The death yesterday in a Russian ...

For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...

AROUND A YEAR ago I received a letter from my alma mater: the Soviet gulag, where I spent nine years after being convicted of anti-Soviet activity, high treason and espionage, and from which I ...

Podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan laid out his nightmare vision of a “Soviet Union-style gulag” situation in the United States where people are tried and convicted for refusing to use people’s ...