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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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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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