Daniel Eisenstadt and Michael Granoff

We Have A Lot To Learn From The Soviet Jewry Movement

By Daniel Eisenstadt and Michael Granoff

The greatest Jewish success story in a quarter century has become unknown to many in less than a generation. On Dec. 6, 1987, when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in Washington, more than a quarter-million American Jews – Democrats and Republicans, observant and secular, and individuals representing the entire spectrum of Israeli politics – gathered on the National Mall with a single unified message as old as the Exodus story: “Let our people go!”