Action For Post-Soviet Jewry

What We Do

• Our main project is Adopt a Bubbe (or Zayde), which provides humanitarian aid for pensioners and the handicapped in Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union.
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• We distribute Jewish cultural materials to many Jewish communities, such as the Megilat Esther in Russian and Hebrew, Haggadot in Russian and Hebrew and books on Jewish topics printed in Russian.
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• We collect and disseminate information on antisemitism in the Former Soviet Union. Our files have been used by immigration lawyers in the U.S. working on asylum cases.
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• We are in touch with our legislators in Washington, D.C. on topics affecting Jews in  the former Soviet Union and émigrés in the U.S.
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• We work on individual cases of Jews who seek help with emigration or asylum 
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• We publish a newsletter, "Post-Soviet Jewry Report," several times a year.
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• We provide opportunities for pen-pals - both for Bar and Bat Mitzvah age youngsters and for those who would like to correspond with the pensioners we serve.  We "twin" Bar and Bat Mitzvah students here with students their own age who attend the Jewish Day School in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.