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Opinion How I Convinced My Russian Jewish Grandmother Not to Vote for Trump
My 80-year-old Russian Jewish grandmother did not vote for Donald Trump. She lives in Massachusetts, so it didn’t make much of a difference in the election’s outcome. Qualitatively, however, her vote mattered. Having started out in Trump’s corner, like the overwhelming majority of ex-Soviet Jews, particularly older ones, she allowed herself to be persuaded by…
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Fast Forward Moscow Chief Rabbi Hails Election of Donald Trump as ‘Good News’
— The chief rabbi of Moscow said he expects U.S. relations with Russia and Israel to improve under President-elect Donald Trump. Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who is also the president of the Conference of European Rabbis, made the projection Tuesday during an interview in the Belarusian capital of Minsk, which for the first time was hosting…
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Opinion Why This Russian Jew Thinks Donald Trump Is Absolutely Right About Russia
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. Until I watched second Presidential Debate, I didn’t like anything about Donald Trump. I am not a Republican. I believe in universal healthcare and I don’t think it’s a great idea to build a wall on the Mexican border. But…
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Opinion By Supporting Donald Trump, Russian Jews Are Betraying Their Beliefs
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. In March 2012, less than a year before his reelection, Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic assuring Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he just needed some space and time to comply with Russia’s requests to scale back missile…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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News On Babi Yar’s 75th Anniversary, a Jew Joins Forces With Ukraine’s Far Right
This year’s commemoration of the Babi Yar massacre—the Nazis’ mass shooting of more than 33,000 Jews at a ravine in northwest Kiev 75 years ago—comes at a critical time: as Ukraine continues to resist Russia’s military threats and violations of its territorial sovereignty. Russia, in turn, has often justified itself and sought to delegitimize the…
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Fast Forward Jews Gather Freely for Festival in Russian Muslim City
KAZAN, Russia — Hundreds of Israeli and European Jews convened in the capital of the predominantly Muslim Russian state of Tatarstan for an annual Jewish music festival as well as a Jewish learning Limmud FSU conference. The two events, which coincide with a third — the Sept. 4 European Day of Jewish Culture — kicked off Friday evening…
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Fast Forward Russian TV Doubles Down on Jewish Titanic Sinking Conspiracy Theory
— A privately-owned Russian television channel reran a documentary from 2012 which claimed the Titanic was sunk partly due to a conspiracy by Jews. REN-TV aired the anti-Semitic documentary last month, according to the Coordination Forum for Countering anti-Semitism. The documentary suggested a “group of 300” Jews, freemasons and “illluminati” had sunk the ship in…
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