Si Frumkin appeared on a number of TV and radio shows and has contributed articles to countless magazines and newspapers. Si Frumkin taught a number of college level courses on Eastern Europe, Jewish history, and the Middle East. Si Frumkin participates in the Simon Wiesenthal Center Outreach and “Meet a Survivor” program, has gone on international missions to China and Japan for the opening of Holocaust exhibits there and is also an active advocate of the campaign to free Jonathan Pollard. In Los Angeles Si Frumkin worked closely with Zev Yaroslavsky who was SCCSJ executive director for 5 years and who headed the Calif. Students for Soviet Jews before being elected to L.A. City Council, and in 1995 to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors.
Si Frumkin is currently the associate editor and columnist for the California-based Russian-language weekly 'Panorama', as well as a free-lance contributor to a number of national and international publications Si Frumkin founded the Southern California Council for Soviet Jews - an independent activist organization
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Welcome to Si Frumkin web site! Los Angeles Panorama. Si Frumkin lives now in Los Angeles Si Frumkin is a member of the Board of Directors of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews. Si Frumkin had been appointed to the L.A. City Human Relations Commission in 1993, and in 2002 to the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Board.
 Welcome to the Si Frumkin website

Si likes to say, “Every Jewish life is a novel”. Si’s life confirms this.

Liberated from Dachau at the age of 14. Refugee camps in Germany and Italy. Schools in Switzerland and England, a B.A. from NYU and finally a home and family in California’s San Fernando Valley.

A flourishing business neglected when Soviet Jews send a message to America: “Why have you forgotten us?” Si Frumkin the businessman becomes Si the activist.


Si Frumkin (right) in Los Angeles with Natan Sharansky whom he had met in Moscow in 1972.

The index of Anatoly Dobrynin’s autobiography, “In Confidence”, lists 19 references to the “Soviet Union, Jewish emigration from,”  By contrast, Moscow’s Ambassador to 6 U.S. presidents mentions “U.S. Cultural exchanges” just 3 times and “Nuclear weapons non-proliferation” just once. If only we had known...

Frumkin – and a handful of others – had the insane notion that we could take on the Soviet superpower and win. But win we did. The Soviet Union is no more. Over a million former Soviet Jews – and their children – now live in freedom.

Frumkin’s life was never boring. He interpreted for Ronald Reagan. Met with Senator Scoop Jackson on the Jackson Amendment. Spent time in the Soviet Union knowing that the Soviets could arrest him as a treasonous Soviet citizen. Spent some time in a Los Angeles jail with his then executive director, Zev Yaroslavsky, for creating a disturbance at a Bolshoi Ballet performance – went to trial, was acquitted. Demonstrations, letter writing campaigns. Met good friends – and a wife – among Soviet immigrants.

Lectures, foreign missions, TV appearances, thousands of articles written. Fighting for Israel, for Holocaust survivors, for fairness in the media. Causes won, others lost. Honors, titles, awards – and hate mail and threats – received.

And now – a web site. It will feature the “Graffiti for Intellectuals” newsletter, archives of publications, reminiscences, pictures, funny stuff and serious stuff, advice and information and whatever else I can think of.

Stay with us – share your impressions, agree or disagree, but I promise, you will not be bored.

--- Si Frumkin

Si Frumkin publishes Graffiti for Intellectuals - a biweekely newsletter.
home of Si Frumkin website In 1989 Si Frumkin participated in the first-ever Union of Councils meeting in the Soviet Union, visited several cities, and met hundreds of Soviet Jewish activists.
Si Frumkin Newsletters Si Frumkin co-founded and served as president of the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews that became the largest independent Soviet Jewry organization with over 100,000 members in more than 40 cities.
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Candlelight Walk for the Soviet Jews in Los Angeles in December 1969.
Si Frumkin has been very involved in legislation and campaigns dealing with restitution to Holocaust survivors worldwide