[RBS] YOSEF MENDELEVITCH-Refusenik,Prisoner of Zion

[Harry greenspan]

Thanks for promoting this--I have heard him more than once--He is VERY inspiring and I feel strongly that our young people would benefit greatly from hearing of his mesirut nefesh and courage during those trying times!  Rabbi H Greenspan

--- On Wed, 9/12/12, Ari Gerber <arigerber at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Ari Gerber <arigerber at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [RBS] YOSEF MENDELEVITCH - Inspiring lecture - Refusenik, Prisoner of Zion
> To: "RBS list" <RBS at yahoogroups.com>, "RBS list - MM" <rbs at cs.huji.ac.il>
> Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 12:28 AM
> You're invited to an inspiring
> evening with 
> YOSEF MENDELEVITCH Prisoner of Zion and author of Unbroken
> Spirit.
>  
> Yoseph Mendelevitch was one of the participants of the
> Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair (an attempted hijacking
> by a group of
> Refuseniks in order to escape Soviet Russia).
>  
> As punishment, he was sentenced to 12 years in forced labor
> camps.
> He served in the Gulag with famous Jewish dissident, Natan
> Sharansky.
> In 1981 he was released and immigrated to Israel.
> Yoseph Mendelevitch will be speaking about:
> His experiences in Russia's prisons and their connection to
> Teshuva
> His struggle on behalf of himself and others for the freedom
> to be
> allowed to live as a Jew in Israel. 
>  
> Thursday, September 20, 8:45pm
> Beit Knesset Netzach Menashe  
> Frieda Lerner Hall 16 Reuven, Givat Sharret, Beit Shemesh 
> LECTURE is in HEBREW.
> Entrance is FREE. 
> The book, Unbroken Spirit, will be sold at a discount price
> at the
> lecture.
> 
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