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Fast Forward Jake Tapper gave Zelenskyy matzah during Passover
The CNN anchor joked about his experience in Ukraine — and how the Ukrainian president wasn’t so amused by the matzah — on “The Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”
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Fast Forward Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was briefly kicked out of Russia in 2005, is generally tight lipped about politics.
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News She could leave Ukraine, but stays to preserve its Jewish future
Rachel Strugatsky was a surgical nurse in Jerusalem. Now she tends to the wounded at her Kyiv synagogue
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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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