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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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Opinion A war for others: As Israeli democracy falters, the country walks a fine line in Ukraine
Israel has mastered the art of tiptoeing around Russia’s war in Ukraine
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Opinion The birth of Ukrainian Jewish identity is happening right now
Russia hasn’t ‘liberated’ Ukrainian Jews. It’s united them with other Ukrainians against their common enemy
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Opinion Russia’s Jews are caught in the messy politics of Putin’s war
Many Russian Jews, caught in a war no one asked for, are seeking a new life elsewhere
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Culture In the story of Tolstoy’s marriage, a modern critique of the whole institution
Frederick Wiseman's 'A Couple' depicts Leo and Sophia Tolstoy in perpetual crisis
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Opinion What Netanyahu’s win in the Israeli elections means for the war in Ukraine
Russia is celebrating Netanyhu’s win. But does Putin still have a partner in Israel?
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