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News Many Crimea Jews Said To Back New Union With Russia
Crimea’s most prominent rabbi has fled to Kiev. But the Jewish community that remains is largely happy living in a fledgling Crimean republic under the control of the Russian Federation. Rabbi Misha Kapustin, who oversaw the region’s liberal Jewish congregations, moved to the Ukrainian capital ahead of Crimea’s March 16 referendum. Meanwhile, religious emissaries from…
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News Three Jews Among Those Killed in Ukraine Uprising
Balaclava-clad far-right paramilitaries fire into the air at the funeral in Ukraine of an anti-government protestor. This is not a tribute to a fellow right-wing nationalist, but to a Jewish construction worker, Alexander Scherbanyuk. Of the approximately 100 people killed during the protests in Kiev that swept Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich from power in February,…
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Breaking News Latvian Nazi SS Veterans March in Annual Riga Parade
Latvians who fought in the local unit of Nazi Germany’s Waffen SS held their annual parade on Sunday, an event which the government feared could raise tensions with Russia as former Soviet states watch events in Ukraine with growing concern. Around 1,500 people – veterans in their 80s and 90s and their supporters – marched…
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Breaking News Kiev Rabbi Attacked on Street — Called ‘Yid’
Two unidentified men assaulted a rabbi in Kiev in a suspected anti-Semitic attack. The men assaulted Rabbi Hillel Cohen, who runs the Ukrainian branch of the Hatzalah emergency services organization, on Thursday on the street, his wife, Racheli Cohen, told JTA. “They struck him in the leg, shouting anti-Semitic slurs, calling him a ‘zyhd,’ she…
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News Anti-Semitism Envoy Blasts Russian Effort To Play Ukraine ‘Jewish Card’
He may lack the cachet and recognition of the Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman, but in the federal government’s sprawling bureaucracy, Ira Forman is the only official tasked with identifying and addressing anti-Semitism worldwide on behalf of the United States. Now, suddenly, with Ukraine in crisis, Forman’s usually low-profile brief is front and center, as he…
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Breaking News Ukraine Rabbi Says Little Sign of Anti-Semitism
A leading Ukrainian rabbi said on Wednesday he saw no sign of hostility toward Jews from nationalists involved in last month’s uprising but was cautious on whether there could be a rise in anti-Semitic threats. Russia brands of the some groups that helped to oust President Viktor Yanukovich as neo-Nazis, highlighting their admiration for Ukrainians…
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Breaking News Latvia Warns Against Nazi Veterans March Amid Ukraine Tension
Latvia’s government warned people to avoid an annual march of World War Two Waffen SS veterans through its capital Riga on Sunday, citing tensions over Ukraine. Many of Latvia’s large Russian-speaking minority say the event distorts history, honours Nazism and insults the victims of the conflict. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intervention in Ukraine’s Crimea, on…
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Opinion Why Vladimir Putin Will Keep Playing Jewish Card in Ukraine Crisis
The Kremlin has issued more condemnations of anti-Semitism in the past week than in the preceding decade. The danger of anti-Semitism was on the lips of the Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and President Vladimir Putin himself. Not Russian anti-Semitism, of course. It was Ukrainian “Neo-Nazism, fascism and…
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