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Opinion I was in a movie with Zelenskyy. His Jewish optimism will help him beat Russia
“Hey, do you know you were in a movie with the new Ukrainian president?” my brother texted me in the Spring of 2019. He included a screenshot of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s IMDb page. “Who me?” I wrote back, adding a perplexed hands-up emoji that perfectly represented the haggard suburban mom I now was. I’d gotten used…
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Culture ‘Holocoste’ sweatshirt taken down by Ukrainian Jewish group
Thousands of stores sell knockoff brand merchandise. But one decided to take it a step further by bringing antisemitism into it with a “Holocoste” sweatshirt, featuring a crocodile like the Lacoste brand’s logo. Elina Katz, a program coordinator for Project Kesher in Ukraine, noticed the sweatshirt for sale on a major e-commerce site called Prom,…
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Yiddish World Yiddish song mystifies, then wows judges on Ukrainian version of ‘The Voice’
A Forverts reader has informed us that two former Ukrainian pop stars, known as The Alibi Sisters, recently performed the Yiddish song “Chiribim-Chiribom” at the blind auditions on the Ukrainian version of “The Voice.” In the video, the judges, presumably none of them Jewish, initially appear mystified by the act – some sporting a slightly…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Ukraine
Many new streets and monuments have been erected since a new government took over in 2014
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Fast Forward DOJ moves to seize property bought by donors to Jewish nonprofits
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint last week to seize property that was bought by two influential Jewish nonprofit donors in Florida who are accused of laundering money from Ukraine. The two men were the subject of a Forward investigation last February. The Justice Department says that two Ukranian oligarchs, Igor Veleryevich Kolomoisky…
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Culture Alexander Vindman and his twin share their story of service
In a Veterans Day message, Lt. Col Alexander Vindman and his twin brother, Lt. Col Yevgeny Vindman, told their story on behalf of all refugees, military and civilian. In the video for HIAS, the 139-year-old Jewish nonprofit that aids refugees from around the world, the brothers, who were smeared as disloyal by the Trump administration,…
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Fast Forward FBI raids offices of Jewish philanthropists implicated in Ukrainian money-laundering scheme
The FBI raided real estate offices associated with two prominent Jewish philanthropists Tuesday morning, likely in connection to a money-laundering scheme out of Ukraine that was the subject of a Forward investigation earlier this year. The FBI searched the Cleveland and Miami offices of Optima Management Group, said Special Agent Vicki Anderson-Gregg at the FBI’s…
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Fast Forward Remains of 286 Jewish Holocaust victims uncovered in 2 basements in Ukraine
(JTA) — The remains of 286 Jews who were murdered during the Holocaust were found in two basements in a town in southwest Ukraine. The remains, mostly women and children, will be buried in a mass grave in the ancient Jewish cemetery in Sataniv, Ynet reported. The town had an organized Jewish community for about…
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