This week I was saddened to learn of the death of Ida Nudel, a former activist and leader in the movement to free the Jews of the Soviet Union. It’s important to remember her, and her giant role in the history of the Jewish people. I knew about Ida Nudel as a teen. She was one of the prominent faces of the Soviet Jewry Movement. Ida was a Soviet Jewish refusenik (Jews who had asked for permission to be able to leave the USSR and ultimately been refused, bringing with the refusal a stigma of being anti-Soviet and victim of...

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