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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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Archive ‘Everywhere, there was death’: The Forward’s groundbreaking coverage of disaster in Ukraine — in the 1930s
The Forward’s reporting became a primary source of American information on the Holodomor, a devastating famine.
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Fast Forward One-third of recent Russian immigrants to Israel left within one month
Russians who have immigrated to Israel since the start of their country's invasion of Ukraine were given additional perks that ordinary immigrants to Israel do not receive — and many have already left.
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Fast Forward Ukraine Holocaust survivors land in Israel on eve of Holocaust remembrance day
“I was a refugee in 1941 and now I’ve become a refugee again,” one said.
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy’s Jewish parents have refused interviews. But their city’s rabbi is talking about them.
Rabbi Liron Ederi, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, told an Israeli magazine that Zelenskyy’s parents have helped him on multiple Jewish initiatives.
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Fast Forward Shoah Foundation shares ‘lost’ testimony of Holocaust survivor who died in Mariupol
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died in her home in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, while the city was under a devastating Russian attack.
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Opinion Odessa, Ukraine has a rich Jewish baseball history
Fewer than 200 Jews have played in the majors. But three Jewish players born in Odessa, the Ukrainian city now under heavy Russian siege, excelled in their adopted sport.
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