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Fast Forward Pol’s Anti-Semitic Tirade Againt Mila Kunis
Ukrainian Jews have protested their government’s backing of a nationalist politician’s anti-Semitic tirade about actress Mila Kunis. The controversy began last month when lawmaker Igor Miroshnichenko of the anti-Semitic Svoboda Party wrote on Facebook that Mila Kunis, an American actress who was born in Ukraine, was “not Ukrainian but a Jewess.” He used the offensive…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Premier Reassures Jews Over Far Right
Despite recent electoral gains by Ukraine’s far right, extremists will not “highjack government priorities” on encouraging Ukrainian Jewish life, Ukraine’s premier reportedly said. In a meeting on Nov. 20, Premier Mykola Azarov told the country’s chief rabbi, Yaacov Bleich, “not to be alarmed” by the entry of the far-right Svoboda party into parliament in last…
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Fast Forward European Jews Worry About Ukraine Extremists
The head of the European Jewish Association has called on the Ukrainian government to ensure the safety of the country’s Jews in the wake of the election to parliament of an anti-Semitic party. “We are not presuming of course, to interfere in internal Ukraine affairs and its voters’ decisions, however we are very concerned about…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Party Gains in Ukraine Election
The Ukrainian ultranationalist Svoboda Party has made unprecedented gains in the country’s parliamentary elections, where it garnered 12 percent of the vote. Svoboda – or Freedom Party – has gained a reputation as an anti-Semitic movement due to anti-Jewish statements by its leaders. Sunday’s vote means the party can now control a faction in parliament…
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Fast Forward Jewish Doctor Beaten to Death in Ukraine
A Jewish doctor in Lviv, Ukraine, was beaten to death by an assailant identified by some local news sources as a 26-year-old Arab. Local news reports identified the victim as Leon Freifeld, 67, a prominent member of the small Lviv Jewish community who headed the traumatology and orthopedic department at a local hospital and also…
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News Ukrainian City Braces for Hasidic ‘Invasion’
Balancing her voluptuous figure on high heels, Alexandra Rostov boards a minibus at Kiev’s Moskovskyi bus station, setting down her zebra-patterned bag as the driver starts the Soviet-era clunker. Like thousands of Ukrainians, Rostov is heading to Uman, a sleepy city of some 85,000 in central Ukraine, to find work associated with the annual pilgrimage…
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Culture How ‘Hava Nagila’ Became a Global Hit
One day, in the summer of 2008, the question “‘Hava Nagila’ — what is it?” popped into Roberta Grossman’s head. Although she was familiar with the ubiquitous song, she was clueless about its origins. Thus began the filmmaker’s four-year quest to investigate the Jewish standard’s century-and-a-half journey, from Ukraine to YouTube. The result is her…
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News Was Kiev Beating Anti-Semitic Act?
At about 1 a.m. on the second night of Passover, Alexander “Aron” Goncharov stepped from Brodsky Synagogue, in the center of Kiev, into the cold night air. The 25-year-old yeshiva student, who was staying at the synagogue’s hostel, never returned to his room. After hours of frantic phone calls the following day, yeshiva authorities finally…
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