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Opinion ‘Our own history will judge us’: Michael Oren on why Israel must take a stand for Ukraine
Supporters of Israel — indeed, Israelis themselves — might be surprised to learn that the country’s policy on Ukraine is virtually the same as that of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. All have refrained from openly condemning Putin. Why would the position of the area’s only Jewish state and its only democracy dovetail with that of…
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Fast Forward Russian missile strikes Babyn Yar. Five killed.
This story is developing. A Russian missile Tuesday hit Babyn Yar, one of the most searing symbols of the Holocaust and Europe’s largest mass grave of the era. There, not far from Kyiv, the Nazis shot and killed 33,771 Jews over a 48-hour period in September 1941. At least five people were killed in Tuesday’s…
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News A Jewish billionaire in Putin’s inner circle is called out — and called upon to broker peace in Ukraine
The wave of economic sanctions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine has targeted Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich
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Culture As Putin lays siege to Ukraine, memories of life between wars
If you aren’t thinking about a place at all, and then a war starts there, it seems like it came out of the blue — a maniac starts the war; a bunch of people die; the rest of us post on our social media. But wars don’t “break out.” They ripen in plain sight until…
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Culture Online, Zelenskyy has become a sex symbol. It’s getting weird.
“I know this is not the time, but I have the biggest crush on this man,” one commenter admitted. The video in question? Ukrainian president and former comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy, now stony-faced, speaking to the press amidst Russian attacks. During times of great crisis — and we’ve had plenty in the past two years —…
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Yiddish World Now streaming: Musician’s fascinating journey to find Ukrainian Jewish folksongs
In the 1920s, after the horrific pogroms that followed the Russian Revolution, a Jewish musician and ethnomusicologist named Moyshe Beregovsky, also known as Moisei Iakovlevich Beregovskii, travelled across Ukraine with a phonograph in hand, seeking to record the authentic Yiddish music of Ukrainian Jewry. Among the hundreds of songs that he collected were Yiddish folk…
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Fast Forward In Brooklyn’s ‘Little Odessa,’ Jews from Ukraine and Russia find the war ‘terrifying’
(JTA) — (New York Jewish Week via JTA) — In Brighton Beach, New York, a community in Brooklyn known to many as “Little Odessa,” named after the port city in Ukraine, many Jews are struggling to navigate the fear and uncertainty that has wracked the community as Russia wages an unprovoked war on their former…
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Fast Forward ‘We can’t get to them:’ Members of Conservative Jewish community trapped in Kharkiv
As the city of Kharkiv in western Ukraine comes under heavy shelling, 150 Conservative Jews are trapped, sheltering at a Jewish school and community center. “Kharkiv is now closed and we can’t get to them,” said Ayal, 45, an Israeli who declined to give his last name who is living in Ukraine and is friends…
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