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Culture In one thuggish and vulgar phrase, a history of turmoil in Putin’s Russia
What was Aleksander Lukashenko talking about when he talked about 'whacking' Yevgeny Prigozhin?
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Culture Any resemblance between these characters and Vladimir Putin’s Russia is strictly intentional
In Paul Goldberg's 'The Dissident,' a Jewish refusenik must try to solve a murder before Henry Kissinger comes to town
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Yiddish World The church preacher who gave sermons in Yiddish
Joseph Rabinowitz, a 19th century Hasid who found Jesus, hoped that his Christian-Jewish sect would improve the fate of the Jews
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News Germany gave these Ukrainian Jews sanctuary. But do they want to call it home?
Before they found shelter in Germany, the Yakovemkos had stayed away from the country and associated it with the Nazis
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Fast Forward Parents of Evan Gershkovich say his arrest revives painful memories of being Jewish in Soviet Union
In their first interview, Ella Milman and Mikhail Gershkovich say their son's imprisonment is ‘totally crushing’
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News #FreeEvan movement takes off on social media for American Jewish reporter jailed in Russia
Sharansky and Griner speak out; photos of Seder plates set for Evan Gershkovich abound, echoing the movement to free Soviet Jews
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Books I translated ‘Life and Fate.’ Now an imprisoned American journalist is reading it in a Russian jail
Vasily Grossman’s epic about life during the siege of Stalingrad is painfully resonant for journalists working in Russia today
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Fast Forward Jews are asked to set a place for arrested journalist Evan Gershkovich at Passover Seders
The Wall Street Journal reporter is being held in Russia on espionage charges. His Jewish parents fled the Soviet Union
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