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Everything to know about Babyn Yar
On Tuesday, a Russian missile hit Babyn Yar, the site of a memorial to Holocaust victims, killing five people. German Nazis and their local Ukrainian collaborators carried out a number of massacres against Jews in World War II at Babyn Yar, which is also known as Babi Yar, including a massacre in September 1941 in…
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A Ukrainian immigrant in L.A. fights Putin with poetry
Watching Russian missiles slam into Ukrainian cities, seeing that 40-mile long Russian army convoy snaking its way toward Kyiv — it’s frightening, frustrating and debilitating. As tragedy unfolds in slow motion, there’s so little, really, that any of us can do. It’s like watching a child drown, the Russian author Maxim Osipov wrote, when you…
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Israel expects 10,000 refugees from Ukraine
Israel is bracing for the arrival of up to 10,000 immigrants from war-torn Ukraine in the coming weeks and months, according to the Jewish Agency, the global organization that facilitates the immigration of Jews to Israel. Roman Polonsky, the Jewish Agency’s regional director for the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Germany, told a Forward…
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A Jewish billionaire in Putin’s inner circle is called out — and called upon to broker peace in Ukraine
The wave of economic sanctions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine has targeted Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich
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Ted Deutch retires from Congress to ‘fight for the Jewish people’ as head of the American Jewish Committee
Congressman Ted Deutch, a prominent Jewish Democrat from South Florida, announced his retirement Monday and that he will be the next chief executive of the American Jewish Committee, the oldest Jewish advocacy group in the U.S. He will replace David Harris, the organization’s CEO since 1990. Deutch, who is in his sixth term in the…
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A Ukrainian Jewish leader takes shelter as her husband fights the Russians
Eugenia Noshenko spent Friday night huddled in her basement in Poltava, Ukraine, helping to comfort the two young children of a neighboring woman as all four of them listened to explosions from the war taking place overhead. Two women, two children and a cat, in a dark room, waiting for dawn. “Today we are back…
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In 4 years, Volodymyr Zelensky went from Jewish comedian to Putin’s ‘No. 1 enemy’ and defender of democracy
(JTA) — Four years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was an actor on the humorous Ukrainian TV show “Servant of the People,” starring as an unlikely president of the Eastern European country. Now, he is at the center of the continent’s most significant conflict since World War II, framing himself as a possible martyr on the world…
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‘It’s like having your hands and legs tied and your eyes wide open’: a Russian Jew in L.A.
Anastasia Shostak always expected to celebrate on the day she became a United States citizen. But on the day it happened — yesterday — the Russian-born Los Angeles resident’s thoughts were thousands of miles away— 6,337, to be exact— in Sumy, the northeastern Ukrainian city where her family is hiding in a neighbor’s basement. “If…
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26 miles West of Russia, Ukrainian Jews hunker down and wait
When Dovid Margolin spoke to the rebbetzin of Kharkov before Shabbat, he could hear heavy artillery fire in the background. While he didn’t notice any panic in her voice, she quickly moved to make sure her family had started heading to the synagogue basement. Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is just 26 miles west…
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Never ‘enough time to grieve’: Has American culture changed shiva for the worse?
When Rabbi Michael Goldman sat shiva for his mother last April, friends and relatives brought over noshes like chickpea kale stew and Israeli sweets. Goldman, who coordinates senior programs at Westchester Jewish Community Services, found himself crying and crying, he said, falling apart in front of guests — including some who he hadn’t known well…
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University of Washington donor pulls funding for Israel Studies program over professor’s criticism of Israel
(Ha’Aretz) — The University of Washington has put its five-year-old Israel Studies Program on hold after a major donor, angry about a professor’s criticism of Israel, took her money back. Becky Benaroya, a prominent Seattle philanthropist, gave $5 million in 2016 to create the program. But after a professor who held the Jack and Rebecca…
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