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Fast Forward ‘Jews Out’ Marchers Celebrate Legacy of Ukraine Nationalist Stepan Bandera
(JTA) — Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev chanted “Jews out” in German at a New Year’s Day march celebrating the birthday of a Nazi collaborator whose troops killed thousands of Jews. Thousands attending the event celebrating Stepan Bandera in the center of the Ukrainian capital held up his portrait while an unidentified person shouted the anti-Semitic…
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Fast Forward Did Joe Biden Urge Ukraine To Back UN Resolution on Israeli Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden called Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to pressure him to support the United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements, a “highly placed” Israeli official told Tablet Magazine. “Did Biden put pressure on the Ukrainians? Categorically yes,” the source said, according to Tablet’s report Tuesday. “That Biden told them…
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Fast Forward Bloody Pig’s Head Carved With Swastika Dumped at Ukraine Pilgrimage Synagogue
– Unknown individuals broke into a synagogue in the Ukrainian city of Uman, sprayed red paint on the walls and left behind a pig’s head with a swastika carved into its forehead. The attack occurred on Tuesday night, DS News reported. The synagogue is part of the Ohel complex, built near the gravesite of the…
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Fast Forward Bones Unearthed in Controversial Construction at Jewish Cemetery in Ukraine
LVIV, Ukraine — City workers in this western city suspended their digging at a former Jewish cemetery amid controversy over the unearthing of human remains at the site. The discovery of bones, including pieces of skull and limbs, occurred last week at the Old Jewish Cemetery of Lviv where diggers with heavy machinery excavated a 40-foot trench despite…
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Fast Forward American-Style Jewish Community Center Opens in Kiev
(JTA) — The Ukrainian capital of Kiev, where Jewish cultural life has largely revolved around the city’s synagogues, opened its first American-style Jewish Community Center. The Halom JCC officially opened Tuesday at a ceremony attended by hundreds of guests in central Kiev, where it is expected to serve thousands of community members every month, according…
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Opinion The Middle East: A Daunting Challenge for Hillary Clinton — or Donald Trump
This piece is part of a series about the issues in the 2016 presidential election. The next President has an enormous mess to clean up. Eight years of President Obama’s utopian rationalism has resulted in a sense of global unraveling — both of geostrategic stability and of American interests — and nowhere has it been…
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News Babi Yar at 75—Looking Back, From the Pages of the Forverts
Nazi forces in the Soviet Union committed the Babi Yar massacre 75 years ago, over two days, on September 28 and 29. But like most of the world’s news media, the Forverts published news of the Babi Yar massacre only in 1943, when Kiev, the neighboring city, was liberated by the Red Army. A feature…
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News Babi Yar at 75: How Will Changing Ukraine Remember Infamous Nazi Atrocity?
We stand at the edge and watch a family play with a remote-controlled toy car by a playground that’s inside the ravine. A girl tosses a ball in the air as she walks past a monumental menorah and asks her grandmother, “What’s with the celebration?” as she takes note of the flowers and wreaths placed…
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