War in Ukraine
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Fast Forward The Moishe House in Kyiv has become a safe haven during wartime
The house normally meant to engage young people in Jewish life has sheltered people fleeing violence and destruction.
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News Raised without Judaism, Ukraine’s Conservative rabbi now leads 5 Jewish communities through war
‘When I look at people in prayer nowadays, I see how sincere and soulful they are, especially when praying for peace,’ said Rabbi Reuven Stamov
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy says he is considering Israeli-style conscription in Q&A with Hebrew University students
The president also requested more support for Ukraine from Israel ‘because this is a joint sorrow’
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Fast Forward A chief rabbi in Ukraine denies sexual misconduct allegations
U.K. Jewish group cuts ties to European Jewish Congress over claims against its treasurer, Yaakov Dov Bleich.
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Fast Forward Jake Tapper gave Zelenskyy matzah during Passover
The CNN anchor joked about his experience in Ukraine — and how the Ukrainian president wasn’t so amused by the matzah — on “The Late Night with Stephen Colbert.”
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Fast Forward Moscow’s chief rabbi in exile after refusing to back Putin’s war on Ukraine, relative says
Pinchas Goldschmidt, who was briefly kicked out of Russia in 2005, is generally tight lipped about politics.
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News She could leave Ukraine, but stays to preserve its Jewish future
Rachel Strugatsky was a surgical nurse in Jerusalem. Now she tends to the wounded at her Kyiv synagogue
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News Jewish? Soviet? Ukrainian? Russian? The war has American Jews asking, ‘Who am I?’
A long history of antisemitic violence and exclusion in the former Soviet Union complicates loyalties for expats in the United States.
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