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Sports Elina Svitolina, Ukrainian tennis star of ‘unconfirmed Jewish heritage,’ on cusp of Wimbledon history
Winning Thursday’s match would make her first Jewish woman to make final since 1956 — that is, if she's actually Jewish
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Opinion Why did Stanford students host a group of neo-Nazis?
The Azov battalion, a neo-Nazi Ukrainian unit, has found friends among America’s elite
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Fast Forward Russia labels Moscow’s former chief rabbi a ‘foreign agent’
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, who had been Moscow’s chief rabbi since 1993, fled Russia just weeks into the war in March 2022
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Fast Forward 7 Ukrainian teens will get a break from war at a Jewish sports camp in California this summer
Ramah Sports Academy in northern California will host six Ukrainian campers and one counselor during its July session
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy responds to Putin by calling him ‘second king of antisemitism after Hitler’
Putin had said Zelenskyy is 'a disgrace to the Jewish people'
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Fast Forward Putin: My Jewish friends say Zelenskyy is ‘not Jewish’
He conceded that Zelenskyy has 'Jewish blood' but said the Ukrainian leader puts 'neo-Nazis, Hitler’s disciples' on 'a pedestal as heroes'
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Fast Forward Most of Kherson’s Jews fled when Russia invaded Ukraine. A flood could force the rest to leave.
'Everything that I had is now under the water,' said a JDC volunteer named Oksana. 'My home is gone'
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News Germany gave these Ukrainian Jews sanctuary. But do they want to call it home?
Before they found shelter in Germany, the Yakovemkos had stayed away from the country and associated it with the Nazis
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News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
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Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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Film & TV The ‘Wicked’ Munchkins seem pretty Jewish this time around
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Fast Forward In Denver, a Jewish day school happily copes with a surge in new students
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Fast Forward Polish officials criticize Yad Vashem’s post on social media, days after US ambassador to Poland rejects Polish complicity as ‘grotesque falsehood’
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