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News Czar Nicholas II Writes a Letter to the Forverts’ Bintel Brief
This letter was received by one of our readers, Mr. Pinkus. The letter was written in Russian and translated by B. Kovner into Galician Yiddish. Here is the letter: Dear and very beloved editor of the Forverts! As I have heard that you are a kind soul with a soft heart, and that you rescue…
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Opinion Why Russian Jews Don’t Want to Hear About Being Saved
The losses of Jacob Birnbaum on April 9, just a few days before Passover, and then Yuli Kosharovsky on April 15, the first day of the Festival of Freedom — both of them giants of the Soviet Jewry movement — seem particularly poignant. It happens to be the 50th anniversary of the first demonstration in…
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Fast Forward Russian Investigators Accuse Jewish Ukraine Oligarch of War Crimes
Russian investigators accused Igor Kolomoisky, a Ukrainian Jewish billionaire and district governor, of murder and human rights violations. The accusation came Wednesday in a statement by Vladimir Markin, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of Russia, a federal body that investigates serious crimes. Besides murder, Kolomoisky is suspected of using “prohibited means and methods of…
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Fast Forward 4,000 Moscow Jews Fete Russia Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar on 50th Birthday
Approximately 4,000 Jews attended Moscow’s first “Festival of Judaism” which organizers planned as a celebration of the 50th birthday of Chief Russian Rabbi Berel Lazar. The festival was held on June 8, two days after Lazar’s birthday, at the Jewish Museum And Tolerance Center in Moscow and featured 50 stations where staff and volunteers presented…
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Fast Forward Russian Jewish Students Get Shavuot Do-Over Test Date
Russia’s education ministry has agreed to provide Jewish students an alternative date for a matriculation exam which took place on the Shavuot holiday. The concession was announced last week in a letter addressed to Berel Lazar, a chief rabbi of Russia. “Students and graduates unable to take the Unified State Exam for religious reasons may…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Joins World Leaders for D-Day — Eyes on Ukraine
(Reuters) — World leaders and veterans paid tribute on the 70th anniversary of the World War Two D-Day landings to soldiers who fell in the liberation of Europe from Nazi German rule, as host France sought to use the event to achieve a thaw in the Ukraine crisis. Wreaths, parades and parachute-drops honored history’s largest…
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Opinion Israeli Rabbinate Should Learn From Shavuot Heroine
Russian immigrants to Israel / Courtesy of Alona Sibuk Her story is well known. She came from a foreign land where she lived like a princess. Despite a very questionable connection to Judaism, she chose to follow her mother-in-law to Israel. There, she lived in abject poverty, getting by only by taking charity. Even when…
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Israel News Michael Bloomberg Takes Turn in Spotlight — and Russian Billionaires Pirouette Along
(JTA) — There were ballerinas, a full dance ensemble, soloists, a harpist, a video tribute to Jewish luminaries in multiple fields, a multimedia orchestra performance celebrating the enduring light of creation, a speech from the prime minister, stand-up from Jay Leno, and an audience packed with top Jewish communal movers and shakers from both sides…
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