Action for Post-Soviet Jewry, Inc. (APSJ) is a private, non-profit, human rights organization dedicated to helping Jews in the former Soviet Union (FSU) as well as participating in general human rights work and humanitarian aid projects. Action for Soviet Jewry was founded in 1975 in response to the struggle of Jews in the Soviet Union to emigrate and to live freely as Jews. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, our name was changed to Action for Post-Soviet Jewry.
We are the only organization in New England working full-time on the situation of Soviet Jewry. Most of our members are in the New England states Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont - but we also have several hundred members scattered across the country. We are a member organization of the Union of Councils for Jews in the former Soviet Union (UCSJ) based in Washington, DC, and we are a constituent agency of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC). We are governed by officers and a Board of Directors. There are three staff members in our office one full-time and two part-time.
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