• "In Here We Are All Jews, he delivers a moving message of Jewish connection and an important perspective on a chapter in Jewish history worthy of being told." - Natan Sharansky, former Prisoner of Zion
  
  
• "Most people are spectators to history; Rabbi Jonathan Porath created Jewish history." - Glenn Richter, National Coordinator, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry 1964 -1991
  
  
• "Exciting Jewish Activist and Public Speaker" - Elie Wiesel  [Read Full Recommendation]
  
  
• "People who know Porath well and worked with him likewise believe that he too was an influential factor in changing Jewish history." - Greer Fay Cashman, Jerusalem Post Book Review
  
  
• "This book exceeded my every expectation." - Michael Berenbaum (Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute, American Jewish University)
  
  

Click here to watch Natan Sharansky speak at the Book Launch event for Here We Are All Jews

"Jonathan Porath's moving and inspiring memoir recounts his fifty-year engagement with the Jews of the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Jewish community that he personally helped to shape. Filled with unforgettable vignettes, the volume serves both as a primary historical source on the Soviet Jewry movement and as a monument to a proud Brandeis alumnus who helped transform the Jewish world." - Jonathan D. Sarna, University Professor and Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History, Brandeis University

"Rabbi Jonathan Porath came as close to joining the Soviet Jewish experience as any outsider possibly could. The remarkable stories he tells of his decades of intimate encounters with Soviet Jews, across the Soviet Union and in Israel, offer one of the most vivid accounts I know of the modern exodus. This book belongs on the very short list of essential books on Soviet Jewry." - Yossi Klein Halevi, senior fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute; author, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

"Rabbi Jonathan Porath's crisp, compelling prose show both a a master educator and a master activist at work. Again and again, we as readers get a firsthand look at his passion and creativity, his courage, and his sense of history.
All of us need to cultivate that sense of Jewish peoplehood and of love of the Jewish people and Israel that leaps off every page in this extraordinary, enlightening salute to the magical power of Jewish memory, identity, chutzpah and hope." - Gil Troy, Distinguished Professor at McGill University and award-winning historian; most recent book, with Natan Sharansky, Never Alone: Prison, Politics and My People

"Most people are spectators to history; Rabbi Jonathan Porath created Jewish history. Many people speculated how they would act on a visit to Jews in the Soviet Union; Rabbi Porath led students on daring multiple missions to Jews in the USSR. His riveting and inspiring narrative We Are All Jews is bursting with story after story of the transition of Soviet Jewry from a seven-decade enforced slumber to energetically joining the worldwide Jewish community. Here We Are All Jews is one heck of a read." - Glenn Richter, National Coordinator, Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry 1964-1991

"Here We Are All Jews - 175 Russian-Jewish Journeys is an amazing book capturing the sounds, smells and meaning of what has happened over the past five decades with Soviet and then FSU Jewry and its impact on Western Jewish youth.
I traveled with Rabbi Porath in 1973 to the Soviet Union and other communist bloc countries. A direct result of my experience, as so eloquently described in Rabbi Porath's book, led me to my own personal path and journey. I have been working and living in Poland for the past 30+ years serving the re-emerging Polish Jewish community.
Read this book and understand how it led me on my life's journey!" - Rabbi Michael Mordecai Shudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland

"Rabbi Jonathan Porath has written an inspiring and compelling memoir, which can be seen as a most moving and almost miraculous response to Elie Wiesel's agonizing Jews of Silence. In the wake of Porath's activities, organizations such as Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry and adult political groups sprang up all around America, replete with marches, rallies, and political lobbying. Mirabile dictu, in 1990 the gates of emancipation to Israel were opened, and by the next decade's end, one million Russian Jewish immigrants came to Israel. Jonathan Porath proved that when Jews worldwide work together on behalf of persecuted brethren, not only do we survive, we prevail." - Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, President and Rosh Hayeshiva of Ohr Torah Institutions

Praise for Previous Work by Rabbi Jonathan Porath by Elie Wiesel "Let me tell you about a young, dynamic rabbi and his splendid work on behalf of Jewish young people in America and Soviet Russia. Many Jewish parents have him to thank that their children remained, or suddenly became, proud Jews, fiery Jews. Every year he would lead a group of Jewish students and travel out over Russian cities, where he would warm the hearts of local Jews, who were glad to know that they hadn't been forgotten. Rabbi Porath's book Jews in Russia: The Last Four Centuries is one of the best books dealing with the condition of Soviet Jewry. It contains information, anecdotes, facts, figures, excerpts, and a great, great deal of Jewish fervor. If you would like a Jewish student to know more about the history and struggle of the heroic Jews in Russia, how the Jewish revolution has won out over the Communist one, give him Rabbi Porath's book." - Elie Wiesel (Der Algemeiner Journal, December 6, 1974, p. 4)