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Fast Forward Trump Urged Ukraine’s Jewish President to Investigate Biden’s Son
President Trump pressured Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky several times to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, The Wall Street Journal reported. In a July phone call, Trump asked Zelensky, a Jewish former comedian who won the presidency in April, to work with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to learn if Biden, when he was…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Meets With Head Of Ukrainian Party That Includes Neo-Nazis
(JTA) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has come under fire in recent years for allegedly failing to confront anti-Semitism and revisionism in Central and Eastern Europe, met Wednesday with the head of a European political party whose membership includes ultranationalists and neo-Nazis. Oleh Lyashko of the Ukrainian Radical Party came to Jerusalem as part…
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Fast Forward Ukraine’s New Jewish President: We Must Defend Our Land Like Israelis
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish actor and comedian, was sworn in Monday as president of Ukraine and said his nation must defend their land like Israelis. Zelensky took the oath of office reportedly on a copy of the country’s constitution and a 16th-century manuscript of the New Testament. “We must become Icelanders in football,…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jews Can’t Agree On Whether Anti-Semitism Is Rising Or Falling
KIEV (JTA) — In the largest poll of Ukrainian Jews conducted in 15 years, nearly one fifth of 900 respondents (17 percent) said that anti-Semitism has increased in the country, whereas another fifth (21 percent) said the opposite. The data underline divisions among Ukrainian Jews over the effects of the 2014 revolution that toppled the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Ukranian President-Elect Could Fill Region With Jews, Says Putin Aide
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s adviser published an opinion piece expressing that Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky could fill eastern Ukraine with Jews, The Moscow Times reported. Sergei Glazyev’s blog post was posted to a nationalist website the same day that Zelensky met with top Ukrainian Orthodox Jewish rabbis, according to the Times. Zelensky is Jewish. “I…
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News Ukraine Elected A Jewish Comedian But Have Ya Heard About The Jews Who Ran Peru
Ukraine has become the first country whose president and prime minister are both Jewish — besides Israel, of course. Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish Ukrainian actor, was elected president of the country over the weekend and will soon serve with Volodymyr Groysman, who has been prime minister since 2016. It’s an interesting first that brought up the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Comedian Elected Ukraine’s President By A Landslide
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jewish Ukrainian actor who on television portrays the country’s leader, is set to reprise the role in real life following the country’s presidential elections. President Petro Poroshenko conceded after losing the vote Sunday with exit polls showing Zelensky commanding a landslide victory, with polling at some ballot boxes giving him…
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News This Jewish Comedian Is About To Become Ukraine’s President — No Joke
In a Europe where anti-Semitism is on the rise, a country Jews still associate with the pogrom of family horror stories looks like it’s about to elect a Jewish comedian as head of state. It’s Ukraine, a country of nearly 44 million people. More than one million Jews were murdered here by the Nazis and…
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