The Students and Housewives versus the Evil Empire. (Yes, we really won.)
Morey Schapira, a Silicon Valley High Tech executive and Soviet Jewry activist leader.
Based in N. California Contact morey.schapira@gmail.com
Lecture Subjects:
The Students and Housewives versus the Evil Empire. (Yes, we really won.)
Secrets about the Soviet Jewry Movement that you never knew. Shhh
How US Jews helped Soviet Jews, How Soviet Jews helped each other, and How Soviet Jews Helped and continue to help US Jews!
Why on earth has the magnificent story of the brave Soviet Jewry Refuseniks and Prisoners been kept a secret for so long?
ABOUT MOREY
In the late 1960s, Schapira became active in the movement to free Soviet Jews and quickly became a leader. In 1971 he became president of the New England Student Struggle for Soviet Jews, and became a national vice president of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry in 1974. While in Boston he also co-founded Action for Soviet Jewry of Boston and Medical Mobilization for Soviet Jews.
In 1973-1974 Schapira was the editor and publisher of "The Guide to Jewish Boston," one of the first Jewish City Guides in the United States.
From 1979 to 1984, Schapira was president of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and from 1984 to 1986, was national president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews.
He regularly testified before the United States Congress; in 1986, for example, he testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East.
In a lecture at Stanford University in 2004 Natan Sharansky referred to Schapira as a "Five-Star General in the Army of Students and Housewives."
Morey's full Biography; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morey_Schapira