In 1987, on December 6, 250,000 people attended the largest march about the Jewish community. The “Freedom Sunday” March in Washington, DC, was the height of the Soviet Jewry advocacy campaign. On the ...
(JTA) — Thirty years ago, Jews in the Soviet Union were not allowed to study Hebrew, eat kosher food, talk about Zionism, go to a synagogue or, most important, leave the country. If they tried to ...