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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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Yiddish World VIDEO: Playwright Jacob Gordin brought realism into the Yiddish theater
This month marks 170 years since the birth of the playwright who translated "The Kreutzer Sonata" and "King Lear" into Yiddish
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Culture These Jewish Eurovision songs are terrible. Listen to them anyway
For every awful song, there's a moment when nothing else works
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Fast Forward Russia bombs Ukrainian city of Uman, a pilgrimage site for Haredi Jews
The city is home to the gravesite for Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, which in the past has attracted thousands of visitors every Rosh Hashanah
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Yiddish World My shul is named after a shtetl. Read how one woman survived after the Nazis came in.
The author, a member of Toronto’s First Narayever Synagogue, retells the story she found in the town’s memorial book.
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News Embodying a story of trauma and liberation, Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover amid a new normal
Children at Kharkiv’s Jewish school traveled with their families to Kyiv for a Passover celebration free from the fear of shelling
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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News Amid Jerusalem’s Flag March, police remove activists aiding Palestinians
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Opinion I run The Jewish Theological Seminary. Here’s the real story about President Isaac Herzog speaking at our commencement
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Opinion Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point