Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich

For Shabbat Chol Hamoed:

The miracle of freedom

We celebrated the seder and will continue enjoying the holiday despite the missiiles and rockets. Yosef Mendelevich had a heroic seder in the gulag, but remained a prisoner for two more years.

A Spiritual Aliyah Saga:

'Let my people go' - from Russia to Israel in 1981

'Let my people go" iis only half the verse Moses said to Pharaoh in G-d's Name. While the first part of the verse took years of fighting to free Soviet Jewry, the end of the verse -'so they can serve Me' was ignored. A memoir.

Letter to American Jews

A former Prisoner of Zion who spent years in a Russian prison turns to US Jewry with a request - before it is too late.

Keep the lights burning:

A hero of Jewish freedom tells his story

Eight Jews stood in a Soviet courtroom like upright candles and declared their loyalty to the Jewish people. It happened during the dark days of Communism when that could mean exile to Siberia or worse. A true story.

Did Bibi blunder?

The threat Netanyahu needed to emphasize is way beyond Israel's borders. Opinion.

An interview with Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich:

The power of Teshuva

The most famous "seruvnik" - fighter for freedom for Soviet Jews - spent 11 years imprisoned in Siberia for his Zionism. He stayed true to his beliefs and his people. Lessons for today.

Regime overthrow in Iran?

The culture and aspiration for democracy must be deeply rooted in the culture of a people for this to occur. This is not the case in Iran. Opinion.

Open letter from Israel:

Jews of America, demand Trump enter the war

Demand from the President of the United States and from the forces of good which still remain in America to immediately enter into a state of war against the global evil of Iran and its allies.

Open letter to President Trump:

Do not allow the whitewashing of the Nazi Butcher of Latvia

Heberts Cukurs was a principle figure in the mass murder of Jews in the forests of Riga. He does not deserve a hero's reburial.

For the holiday of freedom:

Interview with former Prisoner of Zion, Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich

‘We didn’t know you people have such unbreakable spirit and resolve,’ the KGB commander said.

PUBLICIZING A MIRACLE:

Hanukkah in Soviet prisons

Eight Jews stood in the Soviet Union's courtroom and declared their loyalty to the Jewish People, and to our past, present, and future. And it happened on Hanukkah.