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current NCSJ Chairman Edward B. Robin, circa 1970s
Dec. 1974: The Greater New York Coalition for Soviet Jewry leads a hunger strike on the fourth anniversary of the Leningrad Trial
a partial list of Jews in Soviet prison camps, circa 1970s
the starvation diet of a typical prisoner in a Soviet camp
Oct. 1980: Announcement of Hebrew lessons in Leningrad
Feb. 1979: the Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry Committee present a book of appeals from the Moscow Women's Group to First Lady Rosalynn Carter
Dec. 1977: The 7th Annual Women's Plea for Soviet Jewry
Aug. 1981: Refuseniks recite psalms outside the Leningrad trial of Evgeny Lein.
Apr. 1973: The Philadelphia Orchestra performs a "Freedom Symphony" on the steps of the Academy of Music
Oct. 1973: Over 100,000 people demonstrated at a Simchat Torah Freedom Rally for Israel at City Hall in New York City.
Oct. 1973: Singing Israel's national anthem at the Freedom Rally for Israel at City Hall in New York City.
Mar. 1979: Congressional Wives for Soviet Jewry and other activists meet wife of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
Oct. 1973: Thousands gather at a Simchat Torah rally in Rochester, NY.
Soviet Jewish children of activists
Unity with Soviet Jews on Simchat Torah
Feb. 1976: Former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir at the World Conference on Soviet Jewry, held in Brussels
Feb. 1976: a poster for World Conference on Soviet Jewry, held in Brussels
1983: (l.-r.) Rep. William Coyne (D-PA), co-chairman of the 97th Congressional Class for Soviet Jewry, Rabbi David Hill, NCSJ Vice Chairman, and Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), co-chairman of the 97th Congressional Class for Soviet Jewry.
1983: (l.-r.) Rep. Mel Levine (D-CA), 98th Congressional Class for Soviet Jewry co-chairman, Rep. Steve Bartlett (R-TX), co-chairman of the 98th Congressional Class for Soviet Jewry, Jerry Goodman, NCSJ Executive Director and Rep. Connie Mack (R-IL)
New York - Avital Shcharansky, wife of Prisoner of Conscience Anatoly Shcharansky, discusses her husband's condition after a 125 day hunger strike. (l.-r.): Avi Weiss, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, Seymour Lachman, Chairman, Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry, and Eugene Gold, past Chairman, NCSJ.
Nov. 1987: (l.-r.) Yuli Edelshtein, and Morris Abram meet with President Ronald Reagan at the White House, in preparation for the December 1987 Freedom Sunday March on Washington.
1985: Congressional Coalition for Soviet Jews. (l.-r.): Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY), Rep. Dante Fascell (D-FL), U.S. Helsinki Commission Co-chairs, and NCSJ Executive Director Jerry Goodman.
1978: NCSJ Israel seminar on Soviet Jewry. Right, NCSJ Executive Director Jerry Goodman.
1978: NCSJ Israel seminar on Soviet Jewry.
1978: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin speaks at the NCSJ Israel seminar. Foreground, left, is Jacob Birnbaum of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
Oct. 1986: At the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1974: Rallying outside the Soviet Mission to the United Nations, in New York City.
Oct. 1991: Shoshana Cardin, chair of the U.S.-based NCSJ, shakes hands with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at the Kremlin.
1980: NCSJ Chairman Burt Levinson, right, meets with President Ronald Reagan and his National Security Council Advisor Richard Allen.
Jan. 1985: A Prisoner of Conscience luncheon at the Canon Caucus Room in the U.S. House of Representatives Cannon House Office Building.
Annual Sunday solidarity rally in New York City.
Organized labor rallies for Soviet Jewry (undated)
Jun. 1974: NCSJ Chairman Stanley H. Lowell and Washington, D.C. Jewish leaders delivering petitions to the Soviet Embassy.
Apr. 1979: Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA), second from left, at a Solidarity Day rally in New York City.
1977: (l.-r.) Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA), NCSJ Chairman Eugene Gold and Sen. Charles McCurdy "Mac" Mathias (R-MD) at an NCSJ Leadership Assembly
Mar. 1984: Singera and activist Mary Travers at a the rally, South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Community Relations Committee
Mar. 1984: Rally, South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Community Relations Committee
Mar. 1984: Rally, South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, Greater Miami Jewish Federation Community Relations Committee
Dec. 1987: "Freedom Sunday" March on Washington for Soviet Jewry
Dec. 1987: (l.-r.) former refusenik Ida Nudel and Helen Jackson, wife of Sen. Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (D-WA) (d. 1983)
Dec. 1987: Anatoly Shcharansky at the "Freedom Sunday" March on Washington for Soviet Jewry
Dec. 1987: Yosef Mendelevich at the "Freedom Sunday" March on Washington for Soviet Jewry
Oct. 1973: Simchat Torah rally in Philadelphia for Soviet Jewry
1970s: Leonid Koshevoi, Vladimir Prestin, Lev Karp and Benjamin Fain
Prisoner of Zion Ida Nudel
Refuseniks Vladimir and Maria Slepak
(l.-r.) Inna Begun, Faina Berenshtein, Tanya Edelshtein hold pictures of their husbands, Yossi Begun, Yosef Berenshtein and Yuli Edelshtein, who were imprisoned as part of a mid-1980s Soviet crackdown on Jewish cultural activists.
Yuli Edelshtein
Lev and Marina Furman
1995: Jewish Kindergarten in Chernovtsy, Ukraine
Leningrad Anti-Israeli Poster; Israel and USA compared to Nazi war machine
Spring 1991: Shoshana S. Cardin meeting with Va'ad leaders and officials, Moscow
1999: Moscow Hillel students receive Torahs returned to the community
2002: Babi Yar Memorial, Ukraine
1989: Yosef Zissels, Mikhail Chlenov, Zolberg and Muskinsky in Moscow: Jewish leadership at Congress of Jewish Organizations and Communities of the Soviet Union
1999: Moscow Choral Synagogue
1999: Jewish Day School, Moscow
2000: Moscow Hillel
Jul. 1988: Sephardi Synagogue, Tbilisi, Georgia
Aug. 1989: Vladimir Dashepsky, wife, and son, Moscow
2001: Central Synagogue, Minsk, Belarus
1989: Demonstration in Moscow on Holocaust Day
Oct. 1985: Reading Torah, Kyiv Synagogue
Dec. 1987: Jewish leadership, former refuseniks and Prisoner of Conscience Vladimir Slepak at the beginning of Freedom Sunday
Dec. 1987: Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews
1989: Music class in Jewish School, Riga, Latvia
1989: Meeting in Chisinau, Moldova (Kishinev) Synagogue
1989: Jews from Vilnius, Lithuania (Vilna) at a Holocaust memorial, on the site of a Nazi massacre
Flight to Freedom: Emigrating Soviet Jews line up in Warsaw, Poland for the last leg of their journey to Israel (UJA Operation Exodus photograph by Robert A. Cumins)
May 1981: Refuseniks Anatoly Shcharansky and Yosef Mendelevich meet with President Ronald Reagan and Vice-President George H.W. Bush (photo: Bill Fitzgerald, White House)
JDC-sponsored Hebrew lessons at Moscow's Main Synagogue (UJA Operation Exodus photograph by Robert A. Cumins)
May 1988: (right) Pavel Semenov, (middle) Lydia Gonorovskaya (photo: U.S. News and World Report) "No more saying no!" in front of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Moscow
May 1988: In front of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Moscow. Quotes from left, "I am not proud of the Soviet government"; "To be a USSR citizen means to be a PRISONER"; "Genis family: 13 years of unlawful refusal by Gorbachev, KGB leader Kruchkov, and head of Organization for Visas Kuznetzova"
May 1988: One of the weekly demonstrations (conducted from Jan.-Sep. 1988) in front of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Moscow
Oct. 2000: Sukkot, Memorial Synagogue and Holocaust Museum of Moscow
President Ronald Reagan meets with Soviet Premiere Mikhail Gorbachev
A rally on behalf of Soviet Jewish refuseniks
Mar. 2006: President Bush signs the bill "graduating" Ukraine from the Jackson-Vanik Amendment, originally enacted in 1975 to promote rights for Soviet Jewry.
Jun. 2003: Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, and American Jewish leaders, including NCSJ Chairman Dr. Robert J. Meth (second from left).
May 2001: Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) meets with NCSJ Executive Director Mark B. Levin and member of the Russian Jewish Congress.
Mar. 2003: Congregants gather at the opening of a new synagogue in Baku, Azerbaijan.
May 2007: Congregants gather at the opening of a new synagogue in Tallinn, Estonia.