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News Why some Holocaust survivors mourn Ukraine, while others support Putin.
When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, Roza Nemirovskaya, then 16 years old, was forced to flee her hometown Ternivka in western Ukraine before hundreds of Jews were slaughtered and buried in a mass grave. Not in her worst nightmare, she said, could she have imagined another devastating war in her homeland during her lifetime….
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News 56 suitcases and a ticket to Warsaw: One woman’s Ukraine relief effort
Barbara Cook was watching the horror in Ukraine unfold on TV and feeling helpless when she stood up, turned off the television, and started packing her bags. Fifty-six bags, to be precise. Cook, an entrepreneur who lives in the East Bay and the daughter of Holocaust survivors, started gathered donations of clothing, toiletries and suitcases…
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Fast Forward Following Roman Abramovich scrutiny, Portugal tightens rules for Sephardic Jews applying for citizenship
(JTA) — In response to scrutiny over the naturalization of Russian-Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich, Portugal’s government is tightening its law that allows the descendants of Sephardic Jews to become citizens. Applicants must now demonstrate “an effective connection with Portugal,” Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva said Wednesday, according to the Publico newspaper. That involves proof of…
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Culture Jews are joining the fight to defend Ukraine — we’ve been here before
On February 26, just two days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Embassy in Israel issued an invitation to its “dear compatriots, brothers and all caring citizens of Israel.” This was an unusual invitation: it was directed to all of those “who wish to participate in combat actions against the Russian aggressor. The response…
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Culture In Zelenskyy’s Mordechai-like Purim plea, Biden is as uneasy as Esther
Centuries ago, in a story we tell each year on this night, a plea was made to someone with access to power, but who faced no small risk. “Do not imagine that you, of all the Jews, will escape with your life by being in the king’s palace,” Mordechai, a Jew living in Persia told…
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Fast Forward Zelenskyy slated to address Knesset early next week
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the Knesset via video from Kyiv early next week, several Israeli news outlets are reporting. Though the Knesset is in recess, Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, will likely address its members on Sunday, and arrangements will be made to assure as many members as possible will participate, according to YNET….
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Fast Forward EU imposes sanctions on Abramovich, tightening vise on philanthropic oligarch
The European Union froze the assets of Roman Abramovich and banned his travel Tuesday, becoming the latest governing body to impose sanctions on the Russian billionaire and Jewish philanthropist believed to have close ties to Vladimir Putin. Abramovich, an aluminum and oil magnate who attained celebrity as the owner of Chelsea FC, a West London…
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Fast Forward Serafim Sabaranskiy, a Ukrainian Jew who enlisted to defend his country, dies at 29 in a Russian airstrike
(JTA) — Serafim Sabaranskiy was a proud Jew and son of Ukraine. The 29-year-old, an active member of the Hillel chapter in his hometown of Kharkiv, saw the war coming early. He bought combat gear on Feb. 23, a day before the Russian invasion began, and as soon as the fighting started, he enlisted with…
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