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Fast Forward Wounded Ukraine Jewish Mayor Stable in Israel After Assassination Try
The mayor of eastern Ukraine’s biggest city was in a stable condition on Tuesday in a hospital in Israel, where he was flown after being wounded in the highest-profile assassination attempt in the standoff between Kiev and Moscow. Gennady Kernes, one of Ukraine’s most prominent Jewish politicians, was shot in the back on Monday in…
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News Pro-Russia Jewish Mayor Critically Wounded in Ukraine Assaassination Try
The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv in the restive eastern section of the country was shot in a suspected assassination attempt that left him in critical condition. “Today at around noon an attempt was made on the life of Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes,” officials from the city – Ukraine’s second largest –…
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News If Israel Is America’s Closest Ally, Why Isn’t It Toeing Line on Russia?
“Israel is America’s most reliable friend,” the American Israel Public Affairs Committee states on its website. This notion has been put to the test in recent weeks, as Israel has parted ways with the United States on the major issue of how to respond to Russia’s incursion into Ukraine. Israel refused to support an overwhelming,…
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Fast Forward Pro-Russian Separatists Admit Detaining Jewish Journalist in Eastern Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday confirmed they are detaining a U.S. journalist working with Vice News. The self-declared separatist mayor of Slaviansk told reporters the journalist, Simon Ostrovsky, had been detained for reporting what he said was false information that was “destabilising for us” but that he was being treated well. Mayor Vyacheslav…
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Fast Forward 1,000 Plan To Attend Limmud Moscow
Over 1,000 people have registered for the Moscow Limmud at a government-owned resort. Participants of the annual Jewish learning conference paid $300-$500 to attend the four-day event, which will open Friday at the Klyasma resort just outside the Russian capital, organizers said. The for-profit complex is owned by the Department for Presidential Affairs of the…
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Fast Forward Jewish VICE News Journalist Held by Pro-Russian Militants in Ukraine
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Tuesday they were holding an American journalist in the city of Slaviansk and the online news site Vice News said it was trying to secure the safety of its reporter Simon Ostrovsky. The self-declared separatist mayor of Slaviansk told a news conference his men were holding an American…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Vandals Deface Grave of Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Brother
A Holocaust memorial and the grave of the brother of the late Lubavitcher rebbe were vandalized in Ukraine, amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the country. The Holocaust Memorial in Sevastopol in the Crimean Peninsula was spray painted in red with a hammer and sickle and the letters USSR, and with what appeared to…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Separatists Vow Fight With ‘Zombie Zionists’
Ukrainian separatists pledged to combat “zombie Zionists” in what appeared to be a promotional video for a newly-launched pro-Russian television channel. The video was one of the first materials shown by KPE TV, which was established on Sunday, the news website tvplus.dn.ua reported Monday. Coming amid a string of anti-Semitic attacks and incidents in Ukraine,…
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