War In Ukraine
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Fast Forward Aaron Parnas, whose dad Lev was at center of Trump-Ukraine scandal, is a pro-Ukraine influencer on TikTok
(JTA) — Lev Parnas tried to leverage aid to Ukraine to get President Joe Biden investigated. His son is racking up millions of TikTok views by praising Biden for giving Ukraine aid without conditions. Aaron Parnas, who is 22, has emerged as a leading pro-Ukraine voice on the video app. He posts videos of himself updating…
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Opinion How is the Russia-Ukraine war different from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Let me count the ways
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Download and print our free magazine of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. Perhaps you’ve seen the Twitter posts: paired photographs of a Ukrainian…
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Fast Forward Madison Cawthorn: Volodymr Zelenskyy is a ‘woke’ ‘thug’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Madison Cawthorn, the North Carolina Republican congressman with a knack for controversy, called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “thug” whose government pushes “woke” ideologies. “Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug,” Cawthorn said in a video posted Thursday by WRAL, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh. “Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt…
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Fast Forward Their country suddenly a pariah, Jews look for ways to leave Russia
TEL AVIV (JTA) — “You’ll be calling until the mashiach comes,” one woman responded this week to a frantic query about embassy appointments on a Facebook group for Russians planning to move to Israel. While Russians seeking to make the move, known as aliyah, may not have to wait until the messiah arrives, they are facing…
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News Two Jewish Harvard freshmen launch ‘Ukraine Take Shelter’ to help refugees
Two years ago, Avi Schiffmann made headlines as the high schooler from Seattle who built one of the world’s first and largest COVID-19 tracking systems. Now a Harvard University freshman, he’s taking a semester off to apply his technical skills to another urgent cause: finding housing for Ukrainian refugees. The 19-year-old created Ukraine Take Shelter,…
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Opinion I’m an American Jew who was born in Russia. Will my community demonize me?
“If anyone asks, you’re not Russian. You’re Moldovan.” That’s what my mother-in-law advised me a few days ago, as the world reacted with justified horror to the Russian military invading Ukraine. She wants to protect me. Originally from Moldova herself (as is my husband), she’s relieved to be able to tell people truthfully that she’s…
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News ‘Our city is totally destroyed’: One refugee’s story as she crosses the border from Ukraine
Editor’s note: Larry Cohler-Esses, a longtime Forward writer and editor, departed New York on Tuesday to report along the Ukrainian border on the Jewish efforts to support refugees from Russia’s invasion. This is his first dispatch. SUCEAVA, Romania — It took nearly 24 hours of travel — the crawl through rush-hour traffic from the Upper…
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Fast Forward They were trapped in Kharkiv. Jewish group chats showed a way out.
In the early days of the Russian invasion, Kharkiv native Oleg Kosariev, who now lives in Israel, lost touch with his mother and stepfather, who had no electricity and had taken shelter in a basement of their home in the Ukrainian city. He would have to wait until he could communicate with them again, but…
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