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Culture ‘Fiddler on The Roof’ Shtetl To Become Real-Life Refuge For Ukraine’s Jews
(JTA) — The Jewish refugee village of Anatevka, Ukraine, is so new it doesn’t even officially exist yet. Due to open in September, Anatevka Jewish Refugee Community hadn’t received much Jewish-media attention until last week, when its developers began raising funds for the $6 million project — designed for Ukrainian Jews displaced by the war ravaging…
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Fast Forward New Ukraine Office Will Help Immigrants Prove Jewishness
The office, which opened last week in Dnepropetrovsk, aims to facilitate the process for those seeking to immigrate to Israel under its Law of Return for Jews and their kin. It is a joint initiative of the Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk, the Israeli organizations Tzohar and Shorashim, and the Triguboff Institute of Australia. “It will…
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Fast Forward Separatist Ukrainian Leader Makes Anti-Semitic Statements
A separatist leader from Ukraine made anti-Semitic statements at a public address, the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress said. Igor Plotnitsky, head of the breakaway, Russian-backed region of Lugansk in eastern Ukraine, during a lecture in Russia last week linked Ukrainian Jews to the revolution that last year swept from power the country’s previous government amid allegations…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Holocaust Memorial Defaced With Swastika
A Holocaust monument in Ukraine was vandalized with a red swastika that the perpetrators painted over a Star of David symbol. The vandalism in Nikopol, an eastern Ukrainian city located 60 miles from Dnepropetrovsk, occurred on June 16, according to a report Tuesday by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine. Alexander Taratuta, who heads…
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Fast Forward Facebook Bans Ukrainian Slur for Jews
Facebook has taken down dozens of pages containing a Russian-language phrase that combines a Ukrainian pejorative for “Jew” with the name of a nationalist whose troops murdered Jews. The removal of pages containing the phrase “Zhidbanderovets” occurred on April 22 after it was deemed by Facebook to violate the social network’s community standards against offensive…
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The Schmooze Mila Kunis Gets Sued for Stealing a Chicken in Ukraine 25 Years Ago
Once in a blue moon, there comes a celebrity story so perfect in its absurdity that it feels like a gift from TMZ heaven. The epic tale of Mila Kunis and the mystery of the 25-year-old Ukrainian chicken theft falls into that category. A lawsuit filed by one Kristina Karo, claims that the Jewish actress…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Security Chief Blasted for Targeting Jews
A leader of Ukrainian Jews accused the head of the country’s security service of targeting Jews and legitimizing a militia that killed Jews in the 1940s. Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, made the accusation on Facebook against Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, head of the Security Service of Ukraine, the news website evreiskiy.kiev.ua reported,…
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Fast Forward Jewish Oligarch Quits as Ukraine Governor
The Ukrainian Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky resigned as governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region amid a dispute with President Petro Poroshenko over control of two state-owned firms. Kolomoisky, who has poured millions of his own wealth into preparing Ukraine’s army to fight against Russia, sent Poroshenko his resignation letter late last week, the news website evreiskiy.kiev.ua…
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