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Fast Forward In appeal to Israel, Zelenskyy invokes the final solution: ‘You cannot mediate between good and evil’
(JTA) — In a searing 12-minute speech addressing the “people of Israel,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy likened the “final solution” the Nazis sought to impose on the Jews to Russia’s ambitions for Ukraine. Zelensky also appealed, yet again, for military assistance and criticized the government of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for trying to maintain relations…
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Fast Forward ‘It’s God’s work’: Christians are helping hundreds of Ukrainian Jews escape the war to Israel
(JTA) — She risks her life to get Jewish people out of bombed-out parts of Ukraine’s capital city, but Nataliya Krishanovski doesn’t exactly see her actions as humanitarian work. Krishanovski, 60, is part of a 20-person team of Christians who for years have been helping Ukrainian Jews immigrate to Israel because they believe doing so…
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Culture Bono and Nancy Pelosi just compared Zelenskyy and St. Patrick. Should we be upset?
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy is Jewish; this is hard to miss, at least within the Jewish media circles in which I run. Perhaps it is less widely known by non-Jews, but given the fact that one of the central refutations of Putin’s accusation of Nazism in Ukraine is that Zelenskyy is Jewish, something that has…
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Fast Forward Babyn Yar was his backyard. Now this 95-year-old Holocaust survivor has escaped Ukraine after a harrowing ordeal.
(JTA) — Before this month, the last time Evgeny Pavlovskiy left the Kyiv area was during World War II, when his Jewish family hid from the Nazis in Russia’s Ural Mountains. At 95 and suffering from several serious ailments, he was content living alone just two houses away from the entrance to Babyn Yar, where…
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Culture In Ukraine, much of the world’s matzah supply is under fire
Before the Holocaust, Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, had a rich Jewish history, home to tens of thousands of Jews. But, during Nazi occupation, the population plummeted from 80,000 to about 700, with at least 20,000 Jews murdered by firing squads while others fled or were deported. Today, Dnipro is…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy invokes the Holocaust in speech to German parliament
In a speech to the parliament of the nation that birthed Nazism, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked the Holocaust on Thursday, criticizing Germany for failing to do more to stop the Russian assault on Ukraine. “After 80 years, something like this happens and I am telling you: Every year politicians repeat the words ‘never again’…
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News Purim in Wartime: Bucharest celebration brings haunting past into present
BUCHAREST — It was fitting, somehow, that on Purim, the holiday where up is down and down is up, the only Ukrainian refugee I could find among the 200 people attending Wednesday night’s megillah reading at the Choral Temple in Romania’s capital was a Moroccan Jew from Marakkesh. Zakaria Maarif, who is 23, spent the…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy invokes the Holocaust in speech to German parliament
In a speech to the parliament of the nation that birthed Nazism, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked the Holocaust on Thursday, criticizing Germany for failing to step the Russian assault on Ukraine. “After 80 years, something like this happens and I am telling you: Every year politicians repeat the words ‘never again’ and now we…
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