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News Eli Rosenbaum takes skills honed Nazi-hunting to investigating war crimes in Ukraine
A storied Nazi hunter is used to prosecuting war crimes when the conflict is over “but in this case, the atrocities are being committed every day,” he says of Ukraine
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Fast Forward One rabbi’s lifesaving solution to help Odessa’s vulnerable Jews: jerry-rigged car batteries
Rabbi Avraham Wolff is trying to raise money for 357 heating units — one for each apartment where a Holocaust survivor lives
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Fast Forward Russian missiles reportedly damage a historic synagogue in southeastern Ukraine
An unconfirmed photo of the Huliaipole synagogue on Twitter shows a massive hole in the building’s exterior
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Yiddish World New film about postwar shtetls in the former USSR is now streaming
The film "Shtetlers" reveals the Jewish culture that Jews and non-Jews shared in these towns.
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Fast Forward Russia’s foreign minister says West’s opposition to Russia’s war is like Hitler’s ‘final solution’
Lavrov’s latest likening of Ukraine’s defense to the Nazis drew condemnation from U.S. and Israeli officials
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Fast Forward Weapons have been heading from Israel to Ukraine — out of an American stockpile
Israel has declined to send weapons of its own, out of concerns about inflaming tensions with Russia
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Yiddish World Yiddish film offers authentic recreation of shtetl life before it was destroyed
The title leaves the ‘e’ out of ‘shtetl’ as a symbol of what was lost.
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Fast Forward Number of Russian Jews down sharply in last decade, pre-Ukraine war census reveals
Jews have flooded out of Russia since the war began, further depressing a shrinking population
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Fast Forward Polish officials criticize Yad Vashem’s post on social media, days after US ambassador to Poland rejects Polish complicity as ‘grotesque falsehood’
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