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Fast Forward Russian Jews Celebrate ‘Victory Day’ in Times Square
Dozens of Jewish war veterans who fought with the Soviet Red Army in World War II gathered at Times Square to celebrate the Hebrew date of Victory Day. Accompanying the 50-odd veterans — who wore their Soviet uniforms and WWII medals — on Thursday were local rabbis and leaders from New York’s Jewish community, organizers…
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Fast Forward Facebook Bans Ukrainian Slur for Jews
Facebook has taken down dozens of pages containing a Russian-language phrase that combines a Ukrainian pejorative for “Jew” with the name of a nationalist whose troops murdered Jews. The removal of pages containing the phrase “Zhidbanderovets” occurred on April 22 after it was deemed by Facebook to violate the social network’s community standards against offensive…
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Fast Forward Russia Rabbi Leads 500 Shoppers at Paris Rampage Kosher Supermarket
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar is slated to lead a delegation of 500 young Jews to the Hyper Cacher supermarket near Paris where four Jewish shoppers were murdered. The delegation of 18-28 year olds from across Russia is scheduled to leave from Moscow on May 1 for Poland, Berlin and France, Lazar told JTA. In…
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Fast Forward Russian Jewish Groups Call For Lifting of Sanctions Against Moscow
Representatives of major Jewish groups in Russia urged Western coreligionists to lobby for peeling back sanctions against Moscow. The call was made in a document that carried signatures of Crimean Jews and executives from the Chabad-affiliated Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, as well as the Congress of the Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in…
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Culture Moscow on the Delaware
Sixty-five years ago, my father and I stood hand in hand on the third-floor balcony of our three-level row house in Washington, D.C., watching a large house fire raging somewhere beyond the alley. I was 9 years old, and I still remember how tightly he held my hand and how deeply engrossed he was. He…
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Fast Forward Czech Feud With U.S. Envoy Andrew Schapiro Deepens Over Russian War Commemoration
(Reuters) — The Czech prime minister criticized the country’s president, Milos Zeman, on Monday for instigating a public spat with the U.S. ambassador, saying he wished the president was more professional in diplomatic affairs. On Sunday, Zeman told a local news site he had “closed the door” of his official residence to U.S. Ambassador Andrew…
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Fast Forward Russia’s Putin Pledges Support for Palestinian State
Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country will support efforts to build a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. Putin pledged his support Saturday during a meeting of the Arab League in Sharm el-Sheik. “Palestinians have the right to establish an independent and habitable state with a capital in east Jerusalem,” Putin reportedly…
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Fast Forward Finns Mark 25 Years of Aiding Russian Aliyah
Christian Zionists in Finland celebrated the 25th anniversary since their community began helping Russian-speaking Jews immigrate to Israel, or make aliyah. The commemoration took place earlier this month, with the arrival to Helsinki of the second bus this year of Russian-speaking Jews who came from St. Petersburg to make aliyah through what is known as…
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Fast Forward Trump says Chuck Schumer is ‘not Jewish anymore’
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: אַ וואָרענונג פֿונעם מונקאַטשער רבין צו אַמעריקאַנער ייִדן דעם 15טן מאַרץ 1933VIDEO: A warning from the Munkaczer Rebbe to American Jews on March 15, 1933
די קורצע דרשה האָט ער געהאַלטן בעת דער חתונה פֿון זײַן בת־יחידה.
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