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Fast Forward 230 Ukraine Immigrants Arrive In Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some 230 new immigrants from Ukraine arrived in Israel. The immigrants landed Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport on a flight organized by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. There were 78 families in the group, as well as four Holocaust survivors and more than 40 children. Some of the new arrivals left war-torn areas…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Vandalized In Ukraine
(JTA) — Nazi symbols were spray-painted on a monument to Holocaust victims in Ukraine that was erected near their mass graves. The letter X was painted on the Star of David emblazoned on the monument near the western city of Ternopil. A swastika was drawn on the Hebrew-language section of the monument and the SS…
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News Preparing For Passover In Ukraine’s Last Shtetl
BERSHAD, Ukraine (JTA) — At first glance, this drab town 160 miles south of Kiev seems nearly identical to the settlements that dot the poverty-stricken district of Vinnitsa. Shrouded in a seemingly permanent cloud of smoke from wood fires — still the standard means of heating here — Bershad, population 13,000, features two rickety bridges over…
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News Michael Cohen, Top Secret International Diplomatister
Among the many luminaries of the Trump administration, one person has emerged as a globetrotting man of mystery, carrying out top-secret diplomatic missions for his boss – Michael Cohen, formerly Trump’s personal lawyer and now consigliere-without-portfolio to the White House. The Backward has obtained fragmentary transcripts of Cohen’s delicate missions, opening a window onto his…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Historian Who Praised Nazi Collaborator Invited To Holocaust Conference
(JTA) — Ukrainian Jews protested the attendance at an international symposium on the Holocaust by a state historian who praised a Nazi collaborator whose troops killed Jews. Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, last week condemned the planned attendance of Volodymyr Vyatrovych, director of Ukrainian National Memory Institute, at a conference planned for Paris this…
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Community No Tevye In Whitewashed Anatevka
The wooden houses with their straw roofs, their low beams, and crooked steps, solid wooden churches of dark wood with curved domes and cupolas, creaky old chicken coops and mud paths seemed both distant and familiar. At any moment one expects Tevye to appear from behind a corner nudging his horse, teasing his wife, or…
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Opinion Letter from Ukraine: Don’t Let Refugee History Repeat Itself
The abandoned 428-year-old synagogue in Sharhorod, Ukraine stands as a powerful reminder of why millions of Jews in the world now call themselves Americans. I traveled there last week from my home in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to better understand where my family comes from. Six of my eight great-grandparents fled villages like Sharhorod – places…
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Fast Forward Brazilian Neo-Nazis Head To Ukraine To Fight in Civil War
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazilian police have unveiled a plot led by a Ukrainian armed movement to recruit Brazilian neo-Nazis with combat experience to fight pro-Russian rebels in the European country’s civil war. A series of raids took place last month in seven cities on the homes of neo-Nazis in order to prevent possible…
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