War in Ukraine
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News A Long Island rabbi’s journey to deliver supplies turns into a rescue mission for Ukrainian refugees
The American rabbi living in Poland had planned to help Ukrainians — Jews and non-Jews — but from the safety of Polish soil. But this week, heading to the border to distribute food and medicine, he wound up crossing over into Ukraine, emptying his convoy of vans in Lviv, and then filling them up with…
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Opinion Destroying the memory of what the Nazis did to us at Babyn Yar is de-Nazification
For over a decade, I lived down the street from a small urban park improbably named Babi Yar. It was located on the border of Brighton Beach, a community in Brooklyn primarily populated by Jewish members of the former Soviet Union since the 1920s, and Manhattan Beach at the southern tip of Brooklyn. A small…
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Culture Babyn Yar, Putin’s war in Ukraine, and the paintings my grandfather never got to see exhibited
When Russian bombs fell on the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial in Kyiv the other day, killing more people on top of the tens of thousands slaughtered there by the Nazis, it was an especially painful moment for me. I had been invited to have my grandfather’s paintings – the first artistic renditions of the massacre…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy: ‘I don’t feel the Israeli prime minister has wrapped himself in the Ukrainian flag’
(JTA) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Jewish Ukrainian president under siege, said he was moved by pictures of Israelis standing in solidarity with his country during the Russian invasion — but not so much the Israeli leadership. “I saw a beautiful picture today,” he said in remarks translated into Hebrew by YNet, the Israeli news outlet…
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Fast Forward In Dnipro, Orthodox father and son soldiers are ‘ready to kill Russian soldiers’
(JTA) — Until just a few months ago, David Cherkaskyi was finishing a degree in cybersecurity, praying at his Chabad synagogue and posting selfies from his travels across the Jewish world. Now, he’s standing by in his hometown of Dnipro, Ukraine, “ready to kill Russian soldiers.” The 20-year-old Hasidic Jew and his father Asher are…
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Opinion I’m a rabbi in Warsaw. I’m terrified for the future of Ukraine — and the free world
I live in Poland and work as a rabbi in the local Jewish community, but I’ve been paying close attention to Ukraine since Putin’s last invasion in 2014. I was invigorated by the election of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in 2019, and even more impressed when he stood up to President Donald Trump, refusing to take…
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Yiddish World Why I think Putin Bombed Babyn Yar
On March 1, 2022, artillery shells fired by the Russian Army in Ukraine fell in and near Babyn Yar (also known as Babi Yar), the Holocaust’s largest mass grave. On September 29-30, 1941, led by the SS commanders, a large number of Einsatzgruppen, Wehrmacht and German police units as well as Ukrainian collaborators combined to…
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Fast Forward Hillel working to help students from Ukraine as Kharkiv chapter is destroyed in bombing
(JTA) — Before Russian troops invaded Ukraine, the Hillel chapter in Kharkiv was preparing to celebrate its 25th anniversary this spring. In fact, just one week ago, the group working with Jewish students and young adults was advertising a Saturday evening game night. Now, its home has been destroyed, and Hillel International, the network of…
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