Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
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News She fled antisemitism in Ukraine. Now Mila Kunis is raising $30 million to help its refugees.
A lot of actors have weighed in with thoughts, prayers, tweets and donations to help Ukrainians. Mila Kunis is doing it at scale. Kunis, who was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine and moved with her family to the United States in 1991 at the age of 7, and her husband Ashton Kutcher have raised $16.3 million…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy thanks Israel for support a day after Bennett’s meeting with Putin in Moscow
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Israel for its support for his country Sunday, the day after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Moscow for a three-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I am grateful to Israel for their support for Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said, according to a translation by Sky News published…
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Fast Forward Israeli PM Bennett meets with Putin in Moscow to discuss Ukraine, then phones Zelenskyy
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had a marathon day of negotiations that cemented Israel’s place at the forefront of international talks on the hostilities in Ukraine, starting with an unexpected meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bennett spoke with Putin for three hours on Saturday, according to his office, then flew…
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Fast Forward Jewish Ukrainians gear up for fierce Russia fight, alongside the ‘neo-Nazis’ they say Putin is lying about
(JTA) — Konstantyn Batozsky believes he is on a list of so-called “neo-Nazis” to be rounded up “Gestapo-style” and “exterminated” by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv. Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the “bounty on his head” by Ukrainian intelligence sources. But as a longtime and avowed Ukrainian nationalist…
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Fast Forward China pushes Russia’s ‘denazification’ myth to rationalize Ukraine invasion
TAIPEI (JTA) — Many countries have roundly rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s argument that his attack on Ukraine is needed to achieve the “denazification” of that country. But the argument is alive and well in Chinese state-run media. “Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned in a televised speech a few days ago that the military operation…
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Fast Forward Israeli-Canadian hockey star shares dramatic escape from Ukraine
(JTA) — Israeli-Canadian hockey player Eliezer Sherbatov detailed his harrowing experience fleeing Ukraine as war broke out last week on Instagram and in an emotional interview with Canada’s The Sports Network. Sherbatov, a longtime captain of Israel’s national hockey team, made headlines in 2020 when he joined a Polish team that plays in Oswiecim, or…
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Food Ukrainian rugelach are the cookie you should be making now
The historian Timothy Snyder called them the “bloodlands:” the region including Russia and Ukraine that gave us the massive killing fields of Stalin and Hitler, and that now gives us Russia’s vicious war. But that same span of earth has also yielded, in quieter times, a bounty of wheat, milk, fruit and vegetables that all…
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Culture In America, as in Ukraine, the unthinkable has become thinkable
In his classic work “The Captive Mind,” the Polish poet and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz remarks on our tendency to see the world we have always lived in as natural. The buildings on our street “seem more like rocks rising out of the earth” and the clothes we wear as we do our jobs in…
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