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Fast Forward Russia Court Demands 7 Hasidic Trove Books Back — Sets 50K-a-Day Fine
A Russian court demanded on Thursday that the U.S. Library of Congress hand back seven precious Jewish texts to Moscow – and, in a tit-for-tat ruling, said it should pay a massive fine for every day it delays. The so-called Schneerson collection, claimed by both Russia and the New York-based Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch group, has become…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles Tells Holocaust Survivor That Vladimir Putin ‘Same’ as Hitler
Russia criticized Britain’s Prince Charles on Thursday over reports that he likened President Vladimir Putin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler for annexing part of Ukraine. “If these words were truly spoken, then without doubt, they do not reflect well on the future British monarch,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman told a news conference. “We view the…
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News Kharkhiv Jews Stay Calm Amid Separatist Storm Elsewhere in Ukraine
In the basement of the Jewish Cultural Center, a small group of folks in their 20s and early 30s comes trickling in for the weekly Friday night Sabbath celebration. It’s fewer people than usual, about 15 participants, since many have gone out of town for the May Day holiday, but the members represent a wide…
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Music Jewish Ukrainian Mayor Regains Consciousness in Israeli Hospital
The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city regained consciousness in an Israeli hospital following what is believed to be an assassination attempt. Gennady Kernes, who heads the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, awoke Monday at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa after two surgeries, Kharkov’s chief rabbi and Chabad emissary, Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz, told…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Deniers in Russia Now Face Five Years in Prison
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union’s role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail. The law, described by critics as an attempt to curb freedom of expression to appease conservative Russians,…
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News Limmud FSU Turns Kosher With New Infusion of Cash
For more than 1,000 young Jews assembled in Moscow at the end of April, it was just another successful event in a chain of gatherings that has become a magnet for Russian-speaking Jews around the world. But this year’s Limmud FSU meeting also marked a change: The food served was all kosher for the first…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Blames Odessa Violence on Russia
Ukraine’s security service said on Saturday illegal military groups from Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniestria and Russian groups worked together to foment unrest in the southern port city of Odessa. “The unrest, which occurred on May 2 in Odessa and led to clashes and many casualties, was due to foreign interference,” a spokeswoman for the…
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News If Israel Is America’s Closest Ally, Why Isn’t It Toeing Line on Russia?
“Israel is America’s most reliable friend,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee states on its website. This notion has been put to the test in recent weeks, as Israel has parted ways with the United States on the major issue of how to respond to Russia’s incursion into Ukraine. Israel refused to support an overwhelming,…
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