Yosef Mendelevich, at The Blogs

Oct 8, 2014, 3:37 AM

President Reagan and Vice President Bush meet with Avital Sharansky (wife of then-jailed Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky) and Yosef Mendelevitch, May, 1981 (photo credit: White House staff / Wikipedia)

How he triumphed by creating his own spiritual world during 12 years in jail for attempting to hijack a plane to Israel

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Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich was a Jewish refusenik in the former Soviet Union who spent 12 years in prison. He is now a Religious Zionist rabbi living in Jerusalem.