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Opinion Putin is no match for my Jewish Ukrainian babushka
With a little Krav Maga training, my grandmother is a force to be reckoned with.
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy to Kissinger: The world didn’t adapt to the Nazis, we’re not adapting to Putin
Zelenskyy brought up the Holocaust to slam Henry Kissinger, who said that Ukraine should stop looking to regain territory that Russia annexed in 2014.
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Culture Zelenskyy deserves his Time award — but he doesn’t need it
An expert at controlling his image, the Ukrainian president has made himself into a star to the benefit of Ukraine.
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Fast Forward How many Jews fought at Mariupol’s Azovstal plant? Depends who’s counting
An aide to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy said there were about ‘40 Jewish heroes’ fighting in one of the Ukraine war's most epic battles, but others wonder if there was even one Jew at the site prior to Monday’s evacuation of the Mariupol plant
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News ‘The war has seriously crippled us’: In Ukraine, Jewish business owners persist
Three Ukrainian Jewish entrepreneurs talk about their work and faith as the Russian onslaught continues
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Fast Forward 15 ‘Righteous Gentiles’ lived in Ukraine when Russia invaded. An American Jewish group rushed to aid them.
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous engaged in a feverish effort to transfer cash at a time of great upheaval.
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Fast Forward Russian shelling damages Jewish cemetery in Ukraine where pogrom victims are buried
At least 105 of the hundreds of people buried at the graveyard in Hlukhiv died in a 1918 pogrom.
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Fast Forward Bennett says Putin apologized for his deputy’s remarks on Nazis
Russia did not say whether Putin apologized for Sergei Lavrov’s comparison of Ukraine’s Jewish president to Hitler.
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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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