Lecture subjects
The Challenge of Jewish Activism in Small Diaspora Communities. How the Soviet Jewry Movement Changed My Life. Citizen Diplomacy vs Human Rights: Who Won? What United the Diaspora Activists for Soviet Jews? Travels in the USSR: The Good, the Bad and the Amusing.
Contact judy.balint@gmail.com
Languages English, Hebrew, French, German
Based in: Jerusalem
Biography
Judy Lash Balint is a Jerusalem based writer and reporter whose work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines. She is the author of the Jerusalem Diaries book series that document life during the Second Intifada and the 2005 Gaza evictions. Before making aliya in 1998, Judy spent 10 years as the National Director of a Jewish activist group founded by Rabbi Avi Weiss in NY. Judy founded Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry in 1974 after making the first of three trips to the Soviet Union during the 1970s and 80s to make contact with refuseniks and families of Prisoners of Zion. Judy served as a vice president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews for 6 years. Between 2008-2019, Judy was a staff member at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, headed by Amb. Dore Gold. She has a BA and MSW from the University of Washington. Judy lives in Jerusalem and is married to Zev Uslan, a semi-retired medical psychologist.