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Fast Forward For many Jews watching Ukraine’s war, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a ‘modern Maccabee’
(JTA) — One week ago, Jews outside of Ukraine knew Volodymyr Zelensky as the world leader on the other end of the “perfect phone call” that resulted in the impeachment of President Donald Trump. But now, after days of watching Zelensky balance humor and gravitas while rallying his fellow Ukrainians to rebuff the Russian army invasion,…
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News A Ukrainian Jewish leader takes shelter as her husband fights the Russians
Eugenia Noshenko spent Friday night huddled in her basement in Poltava, Ukraine, helping to comfort the two young children of a neighboring woman as all four of them listened to explosions from the war taking place overhead. Two women, two children and a cat, in a dark room, waiting for dawn. “Today we are back…
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Opinion Volodymyr Zelenskyy reminds us what a Jewish hero looks like
In November 1987, I visited Soviet refuseniks in Russia as part of a grassroots volunteer organization in Chicago dedicated to helping Soviet Jews. The USSR was in its final days. I recall how few lights were on when my plane landed, a reflection of a nation that struggled to provide basic necessities like electricity. Food…
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Culture How a career in performance prepared Volodymyr Zelenskyy for this moment in Ukraine
One of Karl Marx’s best-known lines appears in “The Eighteenth Brumaire,” his merciless vivisection of the revolution of 1848 in France. Torn between crying and laughing at the words and actions of the French revolutionaries, who seemed to see themselves as characters in a remake of the earlier revolution of 1789, Marx panned their performance….
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Fast Forward ‘We’ll be on the right side of history’: Lapid says Israel will back UN vote condemning Russia
This story originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said Monday that Israel will back a UN vote to condemn Russia for invading Ukraine. Lapid added that the United States “realizes that there are issues that require our consideration,” referring to Israel’s response to the Russia-Ukraine crisis. He…
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Fast Forward Queer activists gather in NYC to support Ukraine — Jewishly
“Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere,” a sign read outside of the Stonewall Inn in New York City Saturday afternoon, where activists gathered outside of the historic LGBTQ+ rights landmark to express solidarity with marginalized Ukrainians as they face persecution under the invasion of Russian troops that began earlier last week. In…
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Fast Forward Ukraine tries recruiting Israelis and other international volunteers to fight the Russian army
(JTA) — Ukraine’s embassy in Israel tried to recruit Israelis to join the Ukrainian fight against Russia in a Facebook post Saturday. “The Embassy has begun the formation of lists of volunteers who wish to participate in combat actions against the Russian aggressor,” the embassy wrote in a Facebook post that was later taken down,…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jews, scarred by a bloody history, find themselves refugees once again
(JTA) — Across Ukraine, Jews are engaging in a historically Jewish experience: becoming refugees. And hundreds of them from Odessa have headed to an unlikely destination, the impoverished nation of Moldova whose capital, Chisinau, was the site of a major pogrom that became a symbol of Jewish flight Eastern Europe in the early 20th century….
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