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Yiddish World Why you never heard of the avant-garde Jewish artist Sarah Shor
She survived pogroms, Stalin and more — by safely avoiding the spotlight
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Fast Forward Sharansky: Despite the war, there is more hope for Jews in Ukraine than in Russia
More Russian Jews have made aliyah than Ukrainian because there is a 'feeling that the iron curtain is coming back' in Russia, said ex-Jewish Agency chief Natan Sharansky
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Fast Forward Refugees have grown some Ukrainian cities’ dwindling Jewish communities, potentially forever
The main synagogue in Lviv, in the relative safety of western Ukraine, has seen the number of Jews it’s helping more than triple since before the war. Many may never leave.
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Fast Forward In rare rebuke, Russian chief rabbi accuses senior defense official of antisemitism
Berel Lazar’s top spokesperson said he feared a remark linked to the war in Ukraine marks “a new era” for the country’s Jews
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Fast Forward ‘We don’t know who is alive’: Concern mounts for Jews living in Russian-occupied Ukraine
Jews who fled the four regions that Russia now claims say they often can’t through to those they left behind, and when they do, the news is grim
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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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Opinion What Jewish university presidents say: Trump is exploiting campus antisemitism, not fighting it
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Opinion Yes, the attack on Gov. Shapiro was antisemitic. Here’s what the left should learn from it
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