Soviet War on Judaism

Nachmanson turned to me, his face red with rage: “Forget that you are Schneersohn, the distinguished bogamolnik. You are now a simple person who is being punished for your flagrant acts against the proletariat. Now you will pay for everything . . .”

Let us all say the Lechaim! for those who are "there" [i.e., in Soviet Russia] and bless them that they should be given the opportunity to study Torah and observe the mitzvot, and should cease to suffer at the hands of their evil persecutors. The Jewish ...

Zaidy embraced the Torah for the last time and gently laid it, in its wooden case, under a tree. He lifted his young child in his arms and journeyed on through the forest

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson was born on the 18th of Nissan in the town of Podrovnah...

Betsheva's father had taken all possible precautions to hide the illegal factory, covering its entrance with large planks of wood. But the approaching footsteps sounded like they knew where they were headed...

After the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, in 1964, the Rebbe began holding a farbrengen, chassidic gathering and public address, on the date of her yahrzeit. This gathering would be dedicated to her legacy, and to the mission of the ...

In 1951 my father, Rabbi Moshe Greenberg, was twenty years old and a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp in Siberia. That Yom Kippur, he faithfully prayed all the day’s prayers. All, that is, except for Kol Nidrei.

The following talk, as others in its genre, was meant as encouragement for the underground Russian Jewish movement. Some of these talks or their translation into Russian would be broadcast on Radio Free Europe, reaching the oppressed peoples of the ...

"The group is leaving on the train tonight." He spoke in a whisper, although they were alone in the privacy of their home. Spies and informers could be hidden in any corner, and it was said that the walls themselves had ears...

It is not enough to let our people go. We have to take them somewhere.