Daniel Estrin is a radio and print journalist. His stories have been featured on American public radio programs and in publications including The World, Marketplace, The Associated Press, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, The Forward and Tablet Magazine.
Twenty years ago, throngs of Jewish immigrants fled the crumbling Soviet Union for a better life in Israel. More than a million arrived, making it Israel's biggest wave of immigration to date. But what happens when a million immigrants, stripped of their religious affiliation under Communism, integrate into the Jewish state? In Israel, Estrin explores how Israelis have stomached their new neighbors' pork penchants and Christmas-like celebrating. In Russia, he discovers how rabbinic sleuths comb government archives to piece together immigrants' lost Jewish heritage. And in Ukraine, he observes how locals remember the Jewish communities that once were.
BOSTON.COM: ISRAEL WARMS UP TO NEW YEAR'S, SOVIET-STYLE
THE WORLD: UKRAINE'S CONTROVERSIAL THEME RESTAURANTS
TABLET MAGAZINE: CHEAP EATS - A JEWISH-THEMED RESTAURANT IN THE UKRAINE [PODCAST]
AP: EX-SOVIET IMMIGRANTS CHANGE ISRAEL
THE ATLANTIC: GETTING MARRIED IN ISRAEL: WHY IT SO OFTEN MEANS HIRING A DETECTIVE
The Knight Luce Fellowship for Reporting in Global Religion is sponsored by the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC, and funded by a grant from the Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion and International Affairs.
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