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Natan Sharansky
Natan Sharanksy Credit: Creative Image / The Rabbi Sacks Legacy
September 6, 2024, 2:30 pm
Sharansky appointed chair of Rabbi Sacks Legacy global advisory board
Celebrated human rights activist describes former Chief Rabbi as 'a moral lighthouse and his light is needed more than ever in these dark times'
By Michelle Rosenberg
Uyghur demonstrator and campaigner
July 13, 2023, 2:07 pm
Uyghur rights advocates win grants from Elie Wiesel Foundation
Those fighting for China's persecuted Muslim minority will get a six-figure boost as Natan Sharansky says West's response is 'weak'
By Jewish News Reporter
New York City Mayor Eric Adams joins the Combat Antisemitism Movement and 55 of their partner organizations to discuss new ways to tackle bigotry and antisemitic hatred. (Photo credit: Combat Antisemitism Movement)
May 24, 2023, 1:18 pm
New York mayor: Do not ‘underestimate’ the damage Kanye West has inflicted
The Combat Antisemitism Movement hosted a forum in New York, attended by Natan Sharansky, to discuss strategies against antisemitism. 
By JN Reporter
Netanyahu and Trump. Credit: Professor Colin Shindler.
February 9, 2023, 9:25 am
Bigger picture: A history of Israel in 100 cartoons
Drawing parallels between Jews and cartoonists, Dr. Colin Shindler speaks to Jewish News' Jenni Frazer about Golda Meir, Soviet Jewry and Natan Sharansky
By Jenni Frazer
Natan Sharansky, the Genesis Prize co-founder and board member, visits with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelesnky in Kyiv in October 2022. (Courtesy Genesis Prize Foundation)
January 12, 2023, 10:41 am
‘Jewish Nobel’ is group prize this year and goes to activists in Ukraine
Genesis Prize Foundation amends traditional award to recognise ordinary citizens acting on Jewish values of "freedom, human dignity, and justice"
By Philissa Cramer (JTA)
Mikhail Gorbachev, who died aged 91 this week, and (inset) Natan Sharansky, who spoke exclusively to Jewish News
August 31, 2022, 12:20 pm
Gorbachev didn’t realise there’s no such thing as a little bit of freedom – Sharansky
EXCLUSIVE: Natan Sharansky, the political activist and symbol of the plight of Jews in the USSR, tells Jewish News that the last Soviet leader was a unique phenomenon
By Michael Daventry
Natan Sharansk
January 31, 2022, 11:24 am
Natan Sharansky signs ad urging protest of Beijing Olympics over Uyghur persecution
Full page advert taken out by Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity calling on corporate sponsors of the game to 'walk away'
By JTA
Babyn Yar Symbolic Synagogue
April 7, 2021, 11:42 am
Symbolic Babyn Yar shul to open this week
Synagogue at the site of the Shoah massacre near Kyiv will be inaugurated to mark Yom HaShoah, in a ceremony attended by religious and political leaders from Israel and Ukraine
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Jonathan Goldstein addresses the large crowd in Parliament Square at the #EnoughIsEnough demo Credit Marc Morris
February 26, 2021, 11:29 am
Jonathan Goldstein: The books that helped shape my life
In the latest one-to-one with Jewish people who are changing the world, Zaki Cooper talks to businessman and community leader Jonathan Goldstein about the books that inspire him.
By Zaki Cooper
Then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres welcomes Natan Sharansky as he lands in Israel straight from his release in 1986 
September 24, 2020, 4:18 pm
Natan Sharansky: ‘Millions of people were on hunger strike with me’
Francine Wolfisz speaks to the Jewish human rights activist and former Soviet Refusenik about his new book, which reflects on a life spent fighting for others
By Francine Wolfisz
Plan for memorial at the massacre site
September 17, 2020, 10:04 pm
Netanyahu and Gantz join Ukraine’s president speaking at Kyiv Jewish Forum
High-profile speakers discussed a new memorial and learning centre at Babi Yar, the site of a notorious Nazi massacre of the city’s Jews in 1941
By Jewish News Reporter
December 10, 2019, 3:55 pm
Natan Sharansky awarded prestigious ‘Jewish Nobel’ Genesis Prize for 2020
Soviet refusenik heralded as a 'true hero and an outstanding human being' by Isaac Herzog, who took over his role as head of the Jewish Agency
Rabbi Lord Sacks in conversation with Tal Keinan at an event moderated by Baroness Ros Altmann at JW3
July 19, 2019, 1:42 pm
Lord Sacks: Charedi community ‘does not have to be afraid of the outside world’
Former Chief Rabbi says he 'embraces converts' during latest in series of 'Global Jewish Conversations' at JW3
By Jenni Frazer
Natan Sharansky pictured in the film 'From Slavery to Freedom'
May 21, 2019, 9:56 am
Refuseniks’ story told through Sharansky’s lens at Washington Film Festival
From Slavery to Freedom shown in the U.S. capital with Israeli politician taking part in a Q&A session after the screening
By Jenni Frazer
Top: Chaim Weizmann and Natan Sharansky. Bottom: Joseph Trumpeldor and Levi Eshkol
March 26, 2019, 9:27 am
Russian-speaking Jews who shaped Israel
From Josef Trumpeldor and Natan Sharansky, to Chaim Weizmann and Levi Eshkol, the Jewish state has a wealth of contribution from Russian-speakers
By Jenni Frazer
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