Jerusalem Diaries - How One Jew Survived Yom Kippur in the Gulag

Rabbi Yosef Mendelevich joins Judy Lash Balint in-studio to share his experience of observing Yom Kippur in a Soviet prison camp--where he spent 11 years--after being convicted for Jewish activism. Rabbi Mendelevich recounts the events that led him to become a Jewish activist, as part of a movement that led to the freedom of more than a million Jews from the Soviet Union. Today he travels the world inspiring young Jews.