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Fast Forward Across Ukraine, a somber High Holiday season captures how war has ravaged a growing Jewish community
Leaders look for silver linings in a city full of Jewish refugees and near the capital, where a commemoration ceremony symbolizes “reconciliation.”
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Fast Forward As Putin’s war sputters, antisemitism seeps into the Russian media landscape
A popular talk show host named Jews who he found insufficiently patriotic, and a think tank accused a prominent Jewish philosopher of siding with Ukraine “for good money.”
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News Defying Ukraine’s wartime warnings, thousands of Hasidic pilgrims have made it to Uman for Rosh Hashanah
Some are ignoring curfew and other local rules imposed since the Russian invasion — a war that has seen the town bombed multiple times
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Fast Forward Iconic Russian singer condemns war on Ukraine after Jewish husband declared ‘foreign agent’
Until recently, Alla Pugacheva and Maksim Galkin’s relationship was most notable for their wide age gap — she is 27 years older than he is
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News ‘The Jews have arrived’: In Bucha and other decimated towns near Kyiv, a Jewish group distributes sorely-needed supplies
The aid that comes four boxes at a time from the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine has been a lifeline for Jews and non-Jews in areas hit especially hard by the war and its subsequent economic crisis
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Film & TV Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis. A new film tells 8 of their stories.
Director Julia Mintz interviewed some of the last surviving partisans for her documentary 'Four Winters'
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Fast Forward In rare and delicate statement, Russia’s Chabad rabbis call to ‘end the suffering’
The plea comes amid praise by other clergy for the war that Vladimir Putin has vowed to continue
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First Person 34 years ago I left Ukraine because it was no place for Jews. I’m not ready to leave again.
‘I swore I would never set foot in the country again. Yet here I am,’ writes Helen Chervitz
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