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Opinion Zelenskyy is a Jewish hero. That doesn’t erase Ukraine’s complicated past
Ukrainian President Volodoymyr Zelenskyy has led a courageous and unexpectedly strong resistance to the brutal and murderous invasion by Russia, rising to the challenge of the moment in a heroic and extraordinary way. I am proud that he is Jewish. But despite his fearlessness and eloquence in support of Ukraine, I still find myself troubled…
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Fast Forward European Jewish Congress head Moshe Kantor resigns following UK sanctions
(JTA) — Moshe Kantor, the Russia-born president of the European Jewish Congress, resigned from the Jewish group after the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on him because of his alleged involvement with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime. Kantor, a dual citizen of Russia and Britain who has been living in London for over decade, resigned on…
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News ‘We don’t have time to prepare for Passover’: An interview with a rabbi in Kyiv
Helen Chervitz is a fashion writer in Kyiv, but since the Russian invasion, has been writing about living in a country at war. In her first piece for the Forward, Chervitz interviews Rabbi Reuven Azman about his efforts to aid refugees who have streamed to Kyiv from parts of the country hard hit by Russian…
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Culture Why it matters whether we describe Putin’s appalling crimes against humanity ‘genocide’
The horrors produced by Russian soldiers in Bucha and Borodyanka have spurred countless commentaries on two concepts: crimes against humanity and the crime of genocide. Commentators rightly note that these notions differ not on the heinous nature of certain acts, but on how they should be defined. But often missing from these discussions is the…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy: Ukraine will look more like ‘Big Israel’ than Europe in the wake of Russia’s war
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Jewish president, said his country will look more like Israel, a democracy on constant military alert, than like their more relaxed European neighbors, given the prospect of long-term tensions with Russia. “We will become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday at a briefing for Ukrainian media,…
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Fast Forward He’s TV’s favorite mind reader. And he’s about to run 100 miles to support Ukrainian children.
Oz Pearlman, who won third place on Season 10 of “America’s Got Talent” as a mind reader, was supposed to run an ultramarathon in North Carolina last weekend. But he had to drop out at the 11th hour because of work. Disappointed, the endurance athlete and professional mentalist found a different outlet for his energy….
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Culture How the war already changed the meaning of one artist’s childhood — and her painting
'When they started bombing Kyiv, there was no place left for fantasy,' painter Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi said
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Opinion ‘Our house is your house’: Meet the Florida rabbi hosting a family of Ukrainian refugees
“Seamless” is how Rabbi Watstein described the transition for both families
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