Stewart Ain, an award-winning veteran journalist, covers the Jewish community. Follow him on Twitter @AinStewart or email stewartain@gmail.com.
Stewart Ain
By Stewart Ain
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News A Long Island rabbi’s journey to deliver supplies turns into a rescue mission for Ukrainian refugees
The American rabbi living in Poland had planned to help Ukrainians — Jews and non-Jews — but from the safety of Polish soil. But this week, heading to the border to distribute food and medicine, he wound up crossing over into Ukraine, emptying his convoy of vans in Lviv, and then filling them up with…
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Fast Forward Russian missile strikes Babyn Yar. Five killed.
This story is developing. A Russian missile Tuesday hit Babyn Yar, one of the most searing symbols of the Holocaust and Europe’s largest mass grave of the era. There, not far from Kyiv, the Nazis shot and killed 33,771 Jews over a 48-hour period in September 1941. At least five people were killed in Tuesday’s…
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Fast Forward ‘We can’t get to them:’ Members of Conservative Jewish community trapped in Kharkiv
As the city of Kharkiv in western Ukraine comes under heavy shelling, 150 Conservative Jews are trapped, sheltering at a Jewish school and community center. “Kharkiv is now closed and we can’t get to them,” said Ayal, 45, an Israeli who declined to give his last name who is living in Ukraine and is friends…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian ambassador tells American Jews that claims of ‘denazifying’ are ‘appalling’
In a webinar with American Jews, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. Friday said she was appalled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that he invaded Ukraine to “denazify” the country. The assertion is particularly ridiculous because “antisemitism is a crime in Ukraine,” Ambassador Oksana Markarova told the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, an American group…
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Fast Forward Their Birthright program is over. War is keeping these Ukrainian and Russian Jews in Israel.
Some of the young Jews from Ukraine and Russia have finished their Birthright trips and others are still touring, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means that many can’t head home. There are now three groups from Russia and Ukraine on Birthright Israel trips, with 26 of the participants from Ukraine. Sixteen of the Ukrainians were…
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Fast Forward Michigan congregants appeal ruling that they must pay protesters $159,000 in attorneys fees
Two congregants who worship at a Michigan synagogue targeted every Shabbat by anti-Jewish and anti-Israel protesters are planning to appeal a court ruling requiring them to pay the protesters $159,000 in attorneys fees. The congregants had sued the protesters, who have been showing up weekly for 18 years across the street from Beth Israel Congregation…
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Fast Forward Feds to probe students’ complaints of antisemitism at Brooklyn College
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — A federal investigation has been launched into complaints by Jewish students at Brooklyn College that they have been subjected to “severe and persistent harassment” in the Mental Health Counseling master’s program. The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights last week informed the Louis D. Brandeis Center for…
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Fast Forward Stereotypes say Orthodox Jews avoid mental health treatment. The science says otherwise.
A new study counters the assumption that Orthodox Jews are reluctant to seek treatment for mental illness. It also concludes that when experiencing lower grade anxiety and depression, they pursue professional help more so than the general population. Writing in this month’s issue of the journal Transcultural Psychiatry, the study’s authors note stereotypes of Orthodox…
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