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Fast Forward Ukraine Jews Call on Russia To End ‘Invasion’
Religious communities in Ukraine, including the Jewish community, called on Russia to “stop its aggression against Ukraine” and pull out its troops. The religious communities also appealed to the international community, including the United States, Great Britain, the European Union, the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, to “stop foreign…
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Opinion Ukraine Crisis: Bad for AIPAC, Good for Bibi
Pro-Russian activists rally March 1 in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk / Getty Images The AIPAC conference may be opening at an awkward time for the lobby, as the Forward’s Nathan Guttman writes today. Beyond the fact that it’s still licking its wounds from the Iran sanctions imbroglio and has no clear message to…
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Fast Forward ‘Death to Jews’ Scrawled on Synagogue in Crimea
Unknown individuals painted swastikas and the phrase “Death to the Jews” on a synagogue in the Crimea region of southern Ukraine. The graffiti was found Friday on the door and facade of the Reform Ner Tamid synagogue in Simferopol in the Crimean peninsula, the Russian-Israeli news site izrus.co.il reported. Anatoly Gendin, head of the Association…
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Culture When I Played Klezmer for Kiev Uprising Crowd
Dmitry Gerasimov is the leader of a Ukrainian klezmer band that performed for protesters at the Kiev uprising. He describes the experience in an essay that was translated into English by Talia Lavin (JTA) At the Maidan, your clothes quickly start smelling like a campfire; in the metro, you can figure out who has been…
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News Ukraine’s Unfinished Revolution Sparks Hope for Jews — Not Fear
A loudspeaker blares protest calls and a steady crowd buzzes in the background as a young Ukrainian Jewish girl talks into the camera, live from Kiev’s Independence Square. “I want to let you know that lots of people who study Hebrew together with me are going to Euromaidan after classes every single day,” she said,…
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Opinion Will Ukraine’s Revolution Be Good for Its Jews?
I teach modern Jewish history. Usually, when I mention Ukraine in class, my students’ eyes glaze over. But lately that hasn’t been the case. The eyes of the world have been turned to Kiev, the city that was home to Sholem Aleichem, and the birthplace of Golda Meir. People are now wondering whether this revolution…
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Fast Forward Ukraine-Born Jan Koum’s $19B WhatsApp Sale 10% of Homeland’s GDP
(JTA) — Jan Koum’s birthday was Monday, but he received his big gift early. The Ukraine-born CEO and founder of WhatsApp has catapulted from relative unknown to a poster boy for rags-to-riches immigrant triumph since his rapidly growing messaging company was sold last week to Facebook for a record-breaking $19 billion. Koum, who just turned…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jews Hunker Down Amid Turmoil
The turmoil in Ukraine has left one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities on edge. After an outbreak of violence in Kiev last week that left dozens of protesters and policemen dead, President Viktor Yanukovych fled the capital and parliament installed an interim leader to take the still-contested reins of power. Like their compatriots, Ukraine’s Jews…
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Yiddish ווידעאָ: היסטאָריקערין וויווי לאַקס באַשרײַבט געשיכטע פֿון לאָנדאָנער ייִדישער פּרעסעVIDEO: Historian Vivi Laks tells history of the London Yiddish Press
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