War in Ukraine
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy: Ukraine will look more like ‘Big Israel’ than Europe in the wake of Russia’s war
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Jewish president, said his country will look more like Israel, a democracy on constant military alert, than like their more relaxed European neighbors, given the prospect of long-term tensions with Russia. “We will become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face,” Zelenskyy said Tuesday at a briefing for Ukrainian media,…
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Culture How the war already changed the meaning of one artist’s childhood — and her painting
'When they started bombing Kyiv, there was no place left for fantasy,' painter Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi said
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Opinion ‘Our house is your house’: Meet the Florida rabbi hosting a family of Ukrainian refugees
“Seamless” is how Rabbi Watstein described the transition for both families
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Fast Forward Report: Jewish community leader In Ukraine stabbed while delivering aid
(JTA) — Police in western Ukraine arrested a man they suspect stabbed the leader of a Jewish community on Thursday. The assailant stabbed Igor Perelman, the director of the Jewish Community of the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine, where many refugees have fled to escape Russian attacks in the eastern part of the country,…
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Fast Forward Jewish leader in Ukraine stabbed by assailant shouting ‘antisemitic statements’
This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. The director of the Jewish community in a western Ukrainian town was stabbed in an apparent antisemitic attack, the United Jewish Community of Ukraine announced on its Telegram Channel on Thursday. Igor Perelman, the director of the Jewish community of Ivano-Frankivsk in western…
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Fast Forward Ukraine invasion puts Chabad of Russia ‘between a rock and a hard place’
(JTA) – Three days after Russian forces invaded Ukraine, a prominent rabbi in Moscow offered a striking dissent. “Stop the war!” Rabbi Boruch Gorin wrote on Facebook. He added, “This could cause fits of rage, but I have no other words now.” It was not just the use of the word “war,” which Russia later…
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Fast Forward War in Ukraine puts a crunch on matzah prices
(JTA) – On Feb. 24, two shipping containers laden with 20,000 pounds of shmura matzah were slated to head out of port in Odessa, Ukraine, on their way to Orthodox Jews in the United States. Two hours before they were to be loaded onto a ship, Russia invaded. The shipment was the last of 200,000…
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News ‘Jewish blood helps’: In Ukraine, what once held people back now speeds them to safety
BUCHAREST — Victoria Astakhova, a 66-year-old construction engineer from Kyiv, grew up in the Soviet era, when the stamp on her identity card subjected her to antisemitism from neighbors and limits on how high she could advance at work. “In college,” she recalled, “when my dorm mate discovered my card was stamped ‘Jew,’ she didn’t…
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