Charles Schusterman, born in the Soviet Union, and wife Lynn, a Missouri native, used their Oklahoma oil wealth to launch the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies. The foundation is deeply involved in Israeli and…
One of the most famous Jewish refuseniks in the Soviet Union, Natan Sharansky survived Siberian imprisonment to make it to Israel, where he became a politician, author and Jewish Agency chairman.
Silver, a child immigrant to New York from Lithuania, was a leading American advocate and fundraiser for Zionism and headed the U.S. Zionist establishment in the late 1940s. He rallied support for a Jewish state…
