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Opinion Does Takeover of Crimea Mean Messiah Is Near?
Getty Images Most of the Jewish and general world is fuming over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Crimea. But some ultra-Orthodox Jews are positively delighted by it. This week, Grand Rabbi Moshe Shternbuch, the vice president of Israel’s Rabbinical Court and a descendant of the revered rabbi known as the Vilna Gaon (aka “Genius…
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Fast Forward Israel Abstains From U.N. Resolution Slamming Russia Takeover of Crimea
Israel abstained from the U.S.-led bid to isolate Russia at the United Nations in the wake of its takeover of Crimea, distancing itself from the U.S. policy of backing Ukraine in the conflict with its more-powerful neighbor. The non-binding resolution passed in the General Assembly Thursday 100-11, with 58 abstentions, calls on member states “to…
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News Jews in Ukraine and Russia Are Divided as Nations Confront One Another
Jews in Russia and Ukraine are divided as the two nations teeter on the brink of war. That’s according to the director general of the Kiev-based Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, who was in New York to drum up support from American Jewish leaders. Dolinsky said that Ukrainian Jews were dismayed recently to see Russia’s…
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Music Crimea Karaites Back Russia Takeover
(JTA) — Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the strategically critical peninsula that dangles from Ukraine into the Black Sea, has drawn international condemnation. But for the leader of the All-Ukrainian Organization of Crimean Karaites — a group with an unusual heritage that draws from Jewish traditions — joining Russia is a welcome development. “In Crimea, the…
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News Jewish Oligarch Vadim Rabinovich Announces Run for Ukraine President
The brash Ukrainian Jewish oligarch Vadim Rabinovich has announced that he will run for the presidency of Ukraine, according to the Interfax news agency. Rabinovich, president of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress and founder of the European Jewish Parliament, said that he was running to “destroy the myth about anti-Semitism in Ukraine.” In recent months, Russian…
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Fast Forward Russian Nationalist Suggests Dividing Ukraine Using Nazi-Soviet Pact Lines
A prominent Russian politician has proposed dividing Ukraine along the lines of an infamous Nazi-Soviet pact and suggested that regions in Western Ukraine hold referendums on breaking away from Kiev. In a letter sent to the governments of Poland, Romania and Hungary, Vladimir Zhirinovsky also suggested those countries hold referendums on incorporating the regions into…
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Fast Forward Stymied by Israeli Bureaucracy, Ukrainian Has Been Making Aliyah for Years
(JTA) — Sitting in his sister’s living room in this town outside Tel Aviv, Yuriy Yukhatskov says he’s glad to be far from his home city of Kiev. Yukhatskov, 44, says that what he sees as the pervasive anti-Semitism in Ukraine’s capital would grow only worse with the country’s recent unrest. He fears that last month’s…
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Fast Forward Russan Jews Fret Over Ukraine Anti-Semitism
A prominent Russian Jewish organization expressed concern over anti-Semitism in Ukraine. “There is concern in the Russian Jewish community over what is beginning to manifest itself in times of social and political instability as in recent attacks on Jews and Jewish targets in Ukraine,” Andrei Glotser, spokesperson of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia,…
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