Tagged Mikhail Gorbachev

Celebrate and learn from the Soviet Jewry movement
September 17, 2012 / Daniel Eisenstadt and Michael Granoff, JTA

(JTA) — The greatest Jewish success story in a quarter century has become unknown to many in less than a generation. On Dec. 6, 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Washington, more than a quarter-million American Jews — Democrats and Republicans, observant and secular, and individuals representing… Read more »