As Israel Becomes More Central to Diaspora Judaism, Judaism Is Becoming More Central to Israel
The Diaspora strikes back.
February 1, 2022
One Man’s Story of Maintaining Judaism in the Face of Soviet Tyranny
The tsaddik of Leningrad.
In 1972, a Soviet Jewish systems engineer named Yitzchak Kogan found out that the technology he was working on was being shipped to Egypt and Syria. Unable to stomach the idea of aiding the Jewish state’s enemies, he applied for permission to leave for Israel. Although fourteen years elapsed before he and his wife obtained exit visas, they were immediately fired from the jobs. The two returned to Russia in 1991, just five years after gaining their freedom, and Kogan became the rabbi of a Moscow synagogue, and remains active in Jewish communal and religious life.
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