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News ‘A place to sleep:’ Chabad in Moldova turns resorts into refuges for fleeing Ukrainians
Chabad is sheltering and feeding Ukrainian refugees at five resorts in Moldova, which shares a border with Ukraine. Since the Russian invasion began a month ago, the Orthodox Jewish group’s Moldovan arm has assisted thousands of refugees, and is currently caring for 250. Most stay for between five days and two weeks before they find…
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Fast Forward Babyn Yar announces creation of Russian war crimes investigation unit
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center announced Tuesday that they will begin a joint investigation into allegations of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. BYHMC has paired with Yahad In Unum (meaning “together” in Hebrew and Latin) — a French non-governmental organization that has been identifying and documenting mass crimes like the Holocaust and other genocides…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy offers new details about his family’s Holocaust history, igniting debate over Ukrainian Holocaust memory
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy‘s great-grandparents died when the Nazis burned their village, he said in an interview on CNN Monday. Speaking through a translator with Fareed Zakaria, Zelenskyy said, as he has many times before, that his grandfather and his grandfather’s brothers all entered the Soviet Red Army, and only his grandfather survived….
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Yiddish World Ryback’s art captured Ukrainian shtetl life before it disappeared
As Russia’s bloodletting in Ukraine continues, we have begun sharing stories about the great contribution that Ukrainian Jews have made to our rich Jewish culture and to the world at large. Today we’ll focus on the renowned avant-garde Jewish painter Issachar Ber Ryback, whose lithographs and paintings portrayed traditional Jewish life in the Ukrainian shtetl,…
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Fast Forward Prince Harry and Meghan Markle donate to Jewish group to help Ukrainians
The British royals’ donation of an undisclosed amount is the highest profile to HIAS so far
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor, 96, killed by Russian strike in Ukraine
A 96-year-old who survived imprisonment in four concentration camps during the Holocaust was killed by a Russian strike on Kharkiv on Friday. Borys Romanchenko’s death was confirmed by the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial institute, with which he was deeply involved. In a series of Russian-language tweets, the institute said that Romanchenko survived the camps at…
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Fast Forward Why Jewish refugees from Ukraine are choosing Germany over Israel
This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. BERLIN – The New Synagogue on Oranienburger Strasse doesn’t usually hold afternoon prayer services on Shabbat. But a week ago, Rabbi Gesa Ederberg, head of the city’s Masorti-Conservative congregation, made an exception to accommodate the new group of worshippers who don’t speak German….
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Fast Forward After searing speech to Israeli lawmakers, Zelenskyy again points to Jerusalem as potential negotiations site
(JTA) — After a searing speech in which he criticized Israel’s government for not providing more robust aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again raised the possibility that Jerusalem could serve as the site for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, calling it “the right place to find peace,”…
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