As Evan Gershkovich returns home, another Jewish prisoner’s captivity reaches 500 days
The family of Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Princeton graduate student kidnapped in Iraq in 2023, has been told that she is still alive
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Fast Forward This month marks a year since Evan Gershkovich and Elizabeth Tsurkov were deprived of their freedom
Families and colleagues of these two Jews — a reporter imprisoned in Russia and an academic kidnapped in Iraq — don’t want them forgotten
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Fast Forward In first sign of life since her March abduction, an Israeli-Russian academic appears in a video
Elizabeth Tsurkov spoke Hebrew in a video in which she claimed — apparently under coercion — to be a spy for the West
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Fast Forward Woman kidnapped in Iraq was doing research authorized by Princeton
University statement sought by sister of Elizabeth Tsurkov affirms that she was doing work approved for her Ph.D. when she was abducted in March
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