Words of counsel from a former prisoner of Zion
In prison, I derived strength from many sources.
In prison, I derived strength from many sources.
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch sat in a solitary confinement cell to raise awareness for the conditions of Amiram Ben-Uliel's incarceration.
Only a few decades ago, under the Soviets, Torah learning was banned, Torah scrolls, tefillin, texts were burned, Jews lived in fear.
Altman, who tried to hijack a plane to escape the former Soviet Union, dies in Haifa at age 77.
Former Prisoner of Zion Rabbi Yosef Mendelevitch receives “Jewish Heroism Award” from the Kremlin.
Former Prisoner of Zion Yosef Mendelevitch speaks about his feelings on Purim exactly 36 years after his release from a Soviet Prison.
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich tells the moving story of a Prisoner of Zion in a Soviet prison and his meeting with Chabad.
Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich marks 46 years since he and a group of Jewish refuseniks were arrested at Leningrad Airport.
Learn the fascinating story of a Prisoner of Zion who managed to scrounge together a seder in a Soviet prison, and merited to see miracles.
30 years after making Aliyah, former Prisoner of Zion speaks about Soviet Jewry's rediscovery of their Jewish identity and 'enormous power.'
Anti-assimilation head urges ex-Prisoner of Zion Edelstein to do soul searching and fight for the Jewish state, following his call to ban.
Refusenik played a key role in one of the defining moments of the struggle to free Soviet Jewry with a daring plot to hijack a Soviet plane.
Rabbi Mendelevitch, member of the famous 1970 'Operation Wedding' protest, returns to St. Petersburg for Limmud FSU Jewish conference.