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Fast Forward In provocative move, Russia orders Jewish Agency to cease work and remove staff from country, Russian media reports
Immigration from Russia to Israel, which will no longer be possible to do from Russia but can still be done from Israel, more than doubled in 2022
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News How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine
“It feels like we’ve gone back in time to 30 years ago,” said one rabbi in Vinnitsia, where half the Jews have left amid deadly Russian attacks
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News Volunteering to help Ukraine’s refugees amid eerie echoes of long-gone Jewish life
'I wanted to show up as a Jewish person,' says US doctor working with Israeli group in Poland and Ukraine
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Yiddish World Yiddish postcards from the war in Ukraine
A Ukrainian woman is producing postcards with slogans in Yiddish to raise money for first-aid kits.
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Fast Forward Russia’s Jewish oligarchs, 4 months into the war on Ukraine: Where are they now?
Of the 18 businessmen and philanthropists with Jewish ties originally spotlighted by JTA, 15 now face Western sanctions
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Fast Forward Biden administration accuses Russia of antisemitism and exploiting Jewish suffering
The White House times the release of a document to a U.N. Security Council session called by Russia to bolster its claims of denazification in Ukraine
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Fast Forward Ukraine says it will not allow in Uman pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah
Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel exhorted Jews to pray for the war to end, but not to make their annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman’s grave.
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Fast Forward Exiled from Russia, Pinchas Goldschmidt is formally out as Moscow’s chief rabbi after 29 years
An influential spiritual leader in much of Europe, he had left Russia following its invasion of Ukraine
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Fast Forward Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed
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Opinion I grew up believing Australia was the best place to be Jewish. This Hanukkah shooting forces a reckoning I do not want.
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Fast Forward Hanukkah shooting leaves at least 15 dead at Australia’s most popular beach
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Fast Forward Father and son suspects in Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack identified as Sajid and Naveed Akram by law enforcement
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Yiddish רבנישע כּתבֿים ווײַזן אומגעריכטע פֿאַרבינדונגען צווישן ייִדיש און לאַדינאָRabbinical texts reveal surprising links between Yiddish and Ladino
לויט אַ נײַ בוך פֿאָרשונגען האָבן טראַדיציאָנאַליסטן אין ביידע עדות געהאַלטן, אַז ייִדן מוזן אָפּהיטן זייער גערעדט לשון
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Opinion Why Poland’s president canceled his menorah lighting — and how the West helped make that happen
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Fast Forward 4 House Democrats introduce bill that would enact progressive vision for fighting antisemitism
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Yiddish אַ ייִדיש־רעדנדיק קינד דאַרף אַ „שטעטל“׃ ווי עלטערן קומען זיי אַנטקעגןIt takes a village to raise a child in Yiddish: How parents are doing it
מחוץ די חסידישע קרײַזן האָבן געוויסע עלטערן געשאַפֿן זייערע אייגענע ייִדיש־סבֿיבֿות
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