Giving a voice to the living and the dead.

An anniversary in more ways than one.

Lessons of the Helsinki movement.

A reminder that freedom itself is irrepressible.

A sad moment in American higher education.

Lighting the menorah in the Gulag.

A lesson from the refuseniks.

How to unmask those who claim they’re just criticizing Israel.

The U.S. has a long history of supporting despotic regimes in the Middle East in the name of stability. They have also been surprised when. . .

The famed writer and former Soviet dissident, who now chairs the Jewish Agency for Israel, talks about the importance of Jewish nationalism in an allegedly. . .

David Bezmozgis’s The Betrayers tells the story of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet refusenik-turned-Israeli politician, and his encounter with Vladimir Tankilevich, the man who betrayed Kotler. . .

As a liberal democracy, Israel is rightly held, and holds itself, to a higher standard in warfare than its adversaries; too bad the other democracies. . .

 “If American politicians had treated [Andrei] Sakharov the way American leaders today are treating Egyptian dissidents, the Soviet Union might still exist.” (Interview by David Horovitz.) 

Why it would be wrong to abandon Natan Sharansky's ambitious compromise proposal for the most sacred site in the Jewish world.