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Fast Forward Jewish Federations launch Rosh Hashanah letter-writing campaign to Evan Gershkovich
The detained Jewish Wall Street Journal reporter is due to receive a “collective” letter that reflects the themes of the greeting cards
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Fast Forward Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian warlord presumed dead in plane crash, was of Jewish descent
In Russia, his background was not an asset
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Fast Forward Russia has detained a Jewish journalist for 112 days. His friends are reading his work aloud in protest
A 24-hour marathon reading of Evan Gershkovich's work aims to raise awareness of his ongoing detention
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Culture In one thuggish and vulgar phrase, a history of turmoil in Putin’s Russia
What was Aleksander Lukashenko talking about when he talked about 'whacking' Yevgeny Prigozhin?
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Culture Any resemblance between these characters and Vladimir Putin’s Russia is strictly intentional
In Paul Goldberg's 'The Dissident,' a Jewish refusenik must try to solve a murder before Henry Kissinger comes to town
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Yiddish World The church preacher who gave sermons in Yiddish
Joseph Rabinowitz, a 19th century Hasid who found Jesus, hoped that his Christian-Jewish sect would improve the fate of the Jews
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News Germany gave these Ukrainian Jews sanctuary. But do they want to call it home?
Before they found shelter in Germany, the Yakovemkos had stayed away from the country and associated it with the Nazis
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Fast Forward Parents of Evan Gershkovich say his arrest revives painful memories of being Jewish in Soviet Union
In their first interview, Ella Milman and Mikhail Gershkovich say their son's imprisonment is ‘totally crushing’
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