Keynote speaker

  Ruth Wisse
  Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University
  Recipient of 2007 National Humanities Medal
View the keynote speech on YouTube
  (Read about Ruth Wisse here)

RJCF is proud to honor the 2009 Award recipients:

  The Soviet Jewry Freedom Award

  Heroic Refuseniks
  Who captured world attention in June 1970 by Attempting to Escape the USSR in protest of its treatment of Soviet Jews.
  (Read about them in Russian here and here)

  The Soviet Jewry Freedom Award

"The Committee to Free the Leningrad Three."
Please read how the last three samoletchiks were released from a prison:
http://www.jerrykopel.com/c/leningrad-three.htm

  Community Leadership Award

  Naakh Vysoky
  Community Leader & Founder of the Israel Committee for Russian Jewish Pensioners