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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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Film & TV The ‘Wicked’ Munchkins seem pretty Jewish this time around
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Fast Forward In Denver, a Jewish day school happily copes with a surge in new students
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Fast Forward Polish officials criticize Yad Vashem’s post on social media, days after US ambassador to Poland rejects Polish complicity as ‘grotesque falsehood’
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Holy Ground This Jewish family is betting the farm on Thanksgiving turkeys like bubbe cooked
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