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Fast Forward 2 Jews Killed in Breakaway Ukraine Region
Two members from the same Jewish family were killed in shelling in the embattled eastern Ukrainian city of Lugansk. The victims of the July 18 explosion were identified on the website of the Jewish community of Lugansk as Svetlana and Anna Sitnikov. “They stood at a crosswalk with other civilians and just walked into a…
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Culture My Hunt for the Cossacks in Ukraine
For no particular reason, I find myself attending a service in a Budapest church that is rumored to be associated with the far-right Jobbik party. There’s no cross in this church, only flags, and quite many of them, depicting Hungary in various historical stages. Some of the flags contain the so-called Árpád stripes, which opponents…
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Fast Forward Son of Israeli Evangelist Dies in Malaysia Airlines Shoot-Down Over Ukraine
The 27-year-old Israeli son of a well-known Christian evangelist was among the 298 victims who died when Malaysian airlines flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine. Dov Avnon, Itamar Avnon’s father, announced his son’s death on Facebook, the Ma’ariv daily reported Friday. “They say life is short – yes it is true,” wrote his Israeli-born father, who…
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Fast Forward Jewish Ukraine Governor Vows To Return Mosque
The Jewish governor of a large Ukrainian city has promised to return a former mosque to the hands of the Muslim community. Igor Kolomoisky, who was appointed governor of the Dnepropetrovsk region in March, made the promise last week during a visit to the city’s Olympic Reserve Sports School, which operates out of a building…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jewish Group Loses Funding Over Russia Criticism
An organization representing Russian-speaking Jews cut funding for its Kiev office because of the office head’s criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, or EAJC, in February stopped funding its Kiev office, which is run by Josef Zissels, he told JTA on Thursday. “I don’t know for sure why they stopped the…
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News Kiev Is Full of Hope — Yes, Even for Jews
On a recent Aeroflot flight from Moscow to Kiev, I noticed a few peculiarities — due certainly to the undeclared state of war between Russia and Ukraine for the past three months. The check-in agent at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport called security to report that an American named Fishman was flying to Kiev, and asked if…
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Fast Forward Grave Robbers Target Ukraine Holocaust Victims
Grave robbers in Ukraine raided the final resting place of Jews executed en masse during the Holocaust, a Kiev-based watchdog on anti-Semitism reported. The raid occurred on June 20 near Volodymyr-Volynsky, a western city located just north of Lviv, according to Jewish Kiev group which monitors anti-Semitic attacks in Ukraine. Nazis and local collaborators were…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jewish Lawmaker Attacked on Streets of Kiev
A Ukrainian Jewish lawmaker said he was threatened in central Kiev by uniformed men who hurled anti-Semitic insults at him. Oleksandr Feldman, president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, told police last week that the unidentified men surrounded his car on June 17 near the Ukrainian parliament, Ukrainian Jewish Committee Director Eduard Dolinsky told JTA. “When…
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