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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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Opinion Bibi’s Peace-Talk Halt: Bad Tactic — or Bad Faith?
Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Mahmoud Abbas in 2010/Getty Images Israel’s decision today to suspend peace talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization, in response to yesterday’s Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement, is really three distinct decisions. One is sensible. The second is understandable if questionable. The third is inexcusable. The first decision is the actual suspension of talks,…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Plan To Attend Limmud Moscow
Over 1,000 people have registered for the Moscow Limmud at a government-owned resort. Participants of the annual Jewish learning conference paid $300-$500 to attend the four-day event, which will open Friday at the Klyasma resort just outside the Russian capital, organizers said. The for-profit complex is owned by the Department for Presidential Affairs of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish VICE News Journalist Held by Pro-Russian Militants in Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday they were holding an American journalist in the city of Slaviansk and the online news site Vice News said it was trying to secure the safety of its reporter Simon Ostrovsky. The self-declared separatist mayor of Slaviansk told a news conference his men were holding an American…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Separatists Vow Fight With ‘Zombie Zionists’
Ukrainian separatists pledged to combat “zombie Zionists” in what appeared to be a promotional video for a newly-launched pro-Russian television channel. The video was one of the first materials shown by KPE TV, which was established on Sunday, the news website tvplus.dn.ua reported Monday. Coming amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks and incidents in Ukraine,…
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