Image via Wikipedia Tri-City Herald In some of his strongest criticism of his successors, Mikhail Gorbachev on Thursday likened Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to the worst of the communists he once led and helped bring down, and said Russia is today a country where the parliament and the judic...

Dr. Piatetski-Shapiro’s outstanding mathematical contributions came despite hardships in the Soviet Union and later the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease....

Click on the title to watch the video on PBS. KIM LAWTON: Rabbi Shea Harlig is on a mission to get Jews to embrace a more traditional practice of their faith. As an emissary of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he works nearly nonstop. He leads prayer services and Torah studies. DINA HARLIG (Chabad of ...

At Maidan, Halya Coynash examines the historical background of antisemitism in Ukraine, and asks some difficult questions: In western countries the stereotype of French brave opponents of Nazism is widespread, while Poles and Ukrainians are often accused of collaboration and anti-Semitism. There are...

Maly Trostinets The Death Camp near Minsk           Soviet Prisoners of war enclosed within barb-wire at Minsk Maly Trostinets is a village in Eastern Belorussia some 12 kilometres East of Minsk, where the Nazis established a camp. The site chosen was a former collective far...

Maly Trostinets The Death Camp near Minsk           Soviet Prisoners of war enclosed within barb-wire at Minsk Maly Trostinets is a village in Eastern Belorussia some 12 kilometres East of Minsk, where the Nazis established a camp. The site chosen was a former collective far...

On Wednesday a new museum will open in the Estonian capital,Tallinn, Postimees reports. Eesti Juudi Muuseum is devoted to the history of Estonia's Jewish minority, which dates back to the early 19th century. The museum has four sections -- a permanent exhibition, an archive, a reading room and a vir...

Of course no one will argue that there are certain types of online content that are growing into a huge problem, especially with porn getting a prominent placement on multiple online properties. This problem is disturbing enough for various legal actions to be taken to protect internet users from be...

Things aren't good right now. I won't say much more about it. Things simply aren't going well. And thus, I'm trying to find The Funny wherever I can. My friend Ben made a comment on this photo over on Facebook yesterday. I hadn't thought about it in a while, but it made me laugh today. And, dear lor...

Think Conservatives are stupid for hating the Sixties and the so-called intellectuals who control the media and education system in America? Yuri Bezmenov is a former KGB agent and an expert on ideological subversion. He discusses the slow process of demoralization that transformed America from a co...