Dr. Jacob Birnbaum passed away on April 9, 2014, after this was posted. May his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. 讛诪拽讜诐 讬谞讞诐 讗讜转诐 讘转讜讱 砖讗专 讗讘诇讬 爪讬讜谉 讜讬专讜砖诇讬诐 On Passover, Jews celebrate the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. May 1, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of another Jewish saga of deliverance, the story of Russian Jews. The Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) was born at a student meeting called by Jacob Birnbaum on April 27, 1964. The momentum Birnbaum generated at this gathering culminated a mere four days later in a 鈥滿ay Day Demonstration鈥� at the Soviet Mission to the United Nations.   This protest, attended by 700 young people carrying handwritten signs with the slogan: 鈥淲hy no matzohs?鈥� set the pattern for future SSSJ action. Jacob Birnbaum, the founder and creative force behind the SSSJ, unleashed the power of the biblical depiction of the Exodus in the effort to free Jews from the shackles of Soviet Union.  Birnbaum pierced the Iron Curtain by uniting the majesty and awe of Jewish symbols with peaceful, legal, demonstrations and civil rights techniques. This approach galvanized a generation of students, many of them children of Holocaust survivors, determined not to stay silent in the face of oppression of their Jewish brethren. 成人视频色情片 awarded Jacob Birnbaum the Mordecai Ben David Award in 1988 and an honorary doctorate in 2007.  The records of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, including correspondence, telegrams, photos, audio recordings and video, are housed at the 成人视频色情片 Archives. This photo of Dr. Birnbaum at the Pre-Passover All-Night Vigil at the Isaiah Wall at the United Nations on April 2, 1966 is just one of thousands of items in the SSSJ Collection. Posted by Shulamith Z. Berger