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Fifty years ago, these refuseniks tried to hijack a plane — and they're still soaring Photos: Menachem Kalish, Mishpacha archives ITwas June 1970, and after decades of Soviet oppression, a small band of Jewish refuseniks decided to hijack an empty propeller plane and steer it out of Sov
Yury Pavlovich Fedorov spent nearly two decades in Soviet labor camps, for defending the right of Soviet Jews to immigrate to Israel – except he wasn’t even Jewish.
I'm relaxing on the beach in Tel Aviv reading a book that I've been enjoying. More than enjoying, it's an important piece of our history as a people,
Orchestrators of the ‘Operation Wedding’, as the hijacking attempt was codenamed, were immediately busted by the KGB, but the conspirators had achieved more than they could have wished for.
Cohen was a happy Jewish mother and wife who was involved in her synagogue, sent her kids to Jewish camps, car-pooled, and enjoyed family barbecues and weekends in Wisconsin. But her life changed forever when she learned about the Soviet Jewish struggle.