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Opinion Mikhail Gorbachev dismantled the Iron Curtain — and allowed Russian Jews to live openly again
Gorbachev allowed Soviet Jews to study Hebrew, go to synagogue and be openly Jewish for the first time in decades
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News Is this Russian rabbi fair game for sanctions, or being held to a double standard?
A Chabad rabbi singled out for sanctions says he doesn’t support the war in Ukraine. His critics say he hasn’t done enough to oppose it
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Fast Forward Russia’s most prominent dissident has placed a rabbi on his sanctions list
Alexander Boroda, who is affiliated with Chabad, publicly supported the Ukraine invasion in March
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Fast Forward Natan Sharansky urges Russian Jews to move to Israel before possible shutdown
Russia’s Justice Ministry aims to “shut down” the local branch of the Jewish Agency, preventing Russian Jews from moving to Israel
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Culture ‘His Russia is now illegal in Russia’ — how exiled musicians are finding a home away from home
JetLAG bills itself as the largest festival of Russian, Slavic, Balkan and East European music in the US
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy says he is considering Israeli-style conscription in Q&A with Hebrew University students
The president also requested more support for Ukraine from Israel ‘because this is a joint sorrow’
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Opinion On the eve of Passover, a Russian Jewish heroine resists Putin
Alla Gutnikova is a Russian Jewish woman, and one of the former editors of the Moscow Higher School of Economics’ student journal “DOXA.” Gutnikova, along with four of her fellow editors, was sentenced to two years of correctional labor each for their role in a video questioning whether it was right for Russian teachers to…
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Fast Forward EU imposes sanctions on Abramovich, tightening vise on philanthropic oligarch
The European Union froze the assets of Roman Abramovich and banned his travel Tuesday, becoming the latest governing body to impose sanctions on the Russian billionaire and Jewish philanthropist believed to have close ties to Vladimir Putin. Abramovich, an aluminum and oil magnate who attained celebrity as the owner of Chelsea FC, a West London…
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