Dinah Spritzer
By Dinah Spritzer
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Fast Forward Polish city throws children’s bubble party on top of Jewish graves
The former cemetery, now a children’s play area next to an elementary school, was demolished roughly 50 years ago, but the bodies were not removed
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News Condoms and tikkun olam: An Orthodox woman strives to aid sex workers in Prague
Yael Schoultz’s Jewish faith is a core driver in her mission to help sex workers improve their lives
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Fast Forward Hundreds of academics and institutions, including Yad Vashem, condemn Polish government’s attack on Holocaust historian
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki lashed out at Barbara Engelking in a nearly 900-word tweet, accusing her of lying on TV
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Fast Forward First antisemitism report conducted with the Polish Jewish community shows how ‘Jew’ is used to discredit enemies
A Jewish association counted 488 antisemitic incidents in Poland in 2022, a number that the report’s author said just scratches the surface
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Fast Forward Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary remembered with daffodils, 3 presidents and an 11th commandment against ‘indifference’
For the first time, the presidents of Germany, Israel and Poland came together for a ceremony to commemorate the fighters, none of whom are alive today
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Fast Forward From tefillin to troop training: Meet the Orthodox former IDF soldier on the front lines in Ukraine
(JTA) — As an Orthodox Jewish man, each morning Tzvi Arieli wraps his arm and forehead with tefillin, the black leather straps that connect two small boxes filled with verses from the Torah. But Arieli makes exceptions. “If I need to shoot some Russians, timing is really important. I might not be able to focus…
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Fast Forward Babyn Yar was his backyard. Now this 95-year-old Holocaust survivor has escaped Ukraine after a harrowing ordeal.
(JTA) — Before this month, the last time Evgeny Pavlovskiy left the Kyiv area was during World War II, when his Jewish family hid from the Nazis in Russia’s Ural Mountains. At 95 and suffering from several serious ailments, he was content living alone just two houses away from the entrance to Babyn Yar, where…
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Fast Forward Jewish Ukrainians gear up for fierce Russia fight, alongside the ‘neo-Nazis’ they say Putin is lying about
(JTA) — Konstantyn Batozsky believes he is on a list of so-called “neo-Nazis” to be rounded up “Gestapo-style” and “exterminated” by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv. Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the “bounty on his head” by Ukrainian intelligence sources. But as a longtime and avowed Ukrainian nationalist…
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