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Fast Forward Zelenskyy, ‘modern-day Maccabee,’ invokes candle-lit Christmas in speech to Congress
Those expecting the Ukrainian President to play into Hanukkah metaphors may be disappointed
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First Person It’s dark in Kyiv. On Hanukkah, I call on American Jews to help.
The president of Ukraine is in Washington asking Americans for help. From my apartment in Kyiv, so am I.
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News 18 things to know about Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jewish defender of Ukrainian democracy
The Ukrainian president has galvanized his country against an unprovoked attack by neighboring Russia, inspiring Jews everywhere
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: אוקראַיִנער ייִדן רעדן מער אוקראַיִניש; ערשטער כּשרער סופּערמאַרק אינעם גאָלף־ראַיאָןTidbits: Ukrainian Jews speak more Ukrainian; first kosher supermarket in the Gulf
אינעם 19טן יאָרהונדערט האָבן די אָרטיקע ייִדן אָנגעהויבן רעדן בלויז רוסיש, האַלטנדיק אוקראַיִניש פֿאַרן לשון פֿון די פּויערים.
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News In Ukraine, Hanukkah candles are a lifeline in the midst of power outages
The leader of a Conservative community in Chernivtsi sees parallels between the holiday's story and the current situation in Ukraine
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Film & TV Why Zelenskyy made a Jewish joke in his Netflix interview with David Letterman
The Ukrainian President hasn’t made much of his background — but he’s happy to joke about it
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News Ukrainian Jewish life has always taken place in Russian. Now a race to translate is underway.
An effort is underway to translate Jewish texts into Ukrainian for the first time
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Culture As Time’s Person of the Year, Zelenskyy joins a short list of Jews, and a longer list of antisemites
The first person given the title was Charles Lindbergh. Stalin and Hitler followed not long after
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
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