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Letters Sorry, Howard Dean, Pogroms In Ukraine Are Not ‘Russian Propaganda’
Dear Governor Dean: You recently tweeted about an article I wrote in these pages. The article was about anti-Semitism and anti-Roma pogroms in Ukraine. You were skeptical: Be interested to know if this is based on Russian disinformation. https://t.co/h2uKTYYKeR — Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) June 25, 2018 I’m glad you’re exhibiting a healthy skepticism. The next…
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Opinion Violent Anti-Semitism Is Gripping Ukraine — And The Government Is Standing Idly By
A wave of anti-Semitism has swept over Ukraine. In the past three weeks alone, a far-right leader publicly called for cleansing Ukraine of zhidi (a slur equivalent to “kike”); a Holocaust memorial in Ternopil was bombed; hundreds marched through Lviv, in honor of an SS unit, complete with Nazi salutes; “Death to Zhidi” graffiti was…
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Culture Q & A: How The Kishinev Pogrom Shaped History, From The Bolsheviks To The NAACP
Close to noon on April 6, 1903 — Easter Sunday — as families took in the newly pleasant weather in Kishinev, then part of Russia, a group of young boys started to hassle some of the Jews who had joined the Christian families in Chuflinskii Square. It happened every year. The period around Easter always…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Chief Rabbi Wants ‘March Of The Living’ Moved There To Punish Poland
(JTA) — A chief rabbi of Ukraine called on the Israeli government to suspend school trips to Poland and have them in his country because of Warsaw’s new bill on Nazi crimes. Rabbi Moshe Azman made the suggestion in a letter he sent to Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday, a day after the Polish…
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Community Two Ukrainian Cemeteries Housing Holocaust Victims Are In Danger Of Destruction — To Make Room For A Hotel
In the city of Lviv in the Ukraine there are two cemeteries for the burial of Jews. The old Jewish cemetery, one of the most famous in Europe, was started in around 1420 and was closed by 1855 due to the cholera epidemic. Then in 1850, a new Jewish cemetery was started and today it…
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Fast Forward Menorah In Kiev Vandalized With Swastika And Doused In ‘Blood’
(JTA) — A Hanukkah menorah at a synagogue in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev was doused with red liquid resembling blood and vandalized by unidentified perpetrators who drew a swastika on it. The incident happened Sunday at Podol synagogue in Kiev, according to Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee. The several foot tall menorah…
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Community The Post-Soviet Jews Still Need Us.
In my travels, I’ve seen a lot: the last Jewish woman in a tiny Siberian village, fetching firewood by herself on a frigid February morning; fiercely talented Jewish children dancing in traditional Georgian costumes in the village of Gori, where Stalin was born; hundreds of teens from across the former Soviet Union coming together to…
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News How A Name Tag Dragged Chabad Into The Russia-Ukraine Debate
In the hyper-sensitive international atmosphere surrounding Russia’s 2014 forceful annexation of Crimea, even a name tag can create a crisis. This lesson was learned by Chabad-Lubavitch, the Broklyn-based Haredi group which convened its annual emissaries conference in New Jersey on November 19. Among the 5,600 emissaries, or shluchim, from across the world attending the convention…
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Opinion Want to understand what’s wrong with the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement? This Palestinian can help
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