Join B’nai Israel members and the Jewish Museum of Maryland for Shabbat services, a special “Russian” Shabbat Dinner, and a discussion and tour of the current exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, “Power of Protest: The Movement to Free Soviet Jews.”

The tour and discussion will be led by B’nai Israel scholar in residence and Soviet Jewry Activist and Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry Coordinator Glenn Richter. Richter, a longtime civil rights leader, is a founder of SSJA, the first American national movement created to free Russian Jews.

For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit jewishdowntown.org/event/sovietjewrydinner.

Created by the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, “Power of Protest,” on view through Feb. 5, tells the true story of “one of the most successful human rights campaigns ever, when citizens sustained a grassroots effort to demand freedom for Soviet Jews denied rights in the Soviet Union. Inspired by the civil rights, antiwar, and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, students, community leaders, and tens of thousands of people mobilized to free Soviet Jews.”