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Fast Forward Ukrainian refugees to join March of Living at Auschwitz for first post-COVID commemoration
The event gathers 2,500 people from 25 countries for a memorial march through the former death camp in Poland.
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor, 91, dies while hiding in basement in Ukraine
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova previously evaded Nazi arrest at the age of 10 by hiding in a basement.
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Fast Forward A TikTok rabbi helps Jewish Ukrainian refugees feel comfortable in Moldova shelters
CHISINAU, Moldova (JTA) — MacBook under his arm and sporting the latest AirPods, Shimshon Izakson looked as if — with a change of outfit — he could have just stepped out of a hipster cafe in a trendy neighborhood of Moscow or Bucharest. But he was in a Jewish center’s sports hall in downtown Chisinau,…
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News ‘There was nothing else to talk about’: How Ukrainian and Russian Jews sharing an apartment in Jerusalem are handling the war
JERUSALEM — Olga Stalgorova woke up Feb. 24 to find her friend Yulia Borysenko crying in the kitchen of their apartment in a downtown Jerusalem hotel. “They attacked us,” said Borysenko, a 26-year-old from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “They,” of course, meant Russia. Which is where Stalgarova, 24, grew up. The two women — one from…
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Fast Forward Despite danger and disruption, Ukrainian Jews prepare to celebrate Passover in public seders
(JTA) — Between air-raid sirens in Odessa, Svetlana Niselevitch, an 84-year-old Ukrainian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, has been preparing to join a Passover seder for the first time in her life. “We didn’t observe Jewish traditions in my family,” Niselevitch, a poet who was born in Kharkiv, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. But she said Russia’s invasion…
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Yiddish World When the enemy is your brother
The war in Ukraine recalls Avrom Reyzen’s story about a Jew who’s worried that ammunition he's helping create might kill his own brother.
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Opinion On the eve of Passover, a Russian Jewish heroine resists Putin
Alla Gutnikova is a Russian Jewish woman, and one of the former editors of the Moscow Higher School of Economics’ student journal “DOXA.” Gutnikova, along with four of her fellow editors, was sentenced to two years of correctional labor each for their role in a video questioning whether it was right for Russian teachers to…
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Opinion ‘How can I tell her that there is no more home?’ After leaving Ukraine, refugees face a bureaucratic nightmare
I decided to take the kids on a trip to cheer them up. A volunteer from Romania drove us to a local mall in Slovakia. These Ukrainian children will be starting school in Slovakia soon, and I wanted them to feel a little bit normal and excited by new clothes, backpacks and school supplies. I…
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