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News Encountering a Nazi Relic in Odessa’s Fabled Tunnels
Odessa, as a city, reminds me of no place more than New Orleans. It’s not the geography or architecture of these two cities, it’s the similarity of character and of their place in the greater pantheon of the cities of their respective regions of the world. Like New Orleans, Odessa isn’t a capital. It isn’t…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian City Agrees To Stop Using Jewish Headstones as Pavement
The city of Lviv in Ukraine agreed to remove Jewish headstones currently used as pavement. The grave markers, from cemeteries destroyed by the Nazis during their occupation of Ukraine in the 1940s, will be moved to the only cemetery that was not destroyed during the Holocaust, according to Sprirt24, a Netherlands-based news agency. The Soviet…
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Fast Forward Top 3 Philanthopists in Ukraine Are All Jews
Ukraine’s three most generous philanthropists are all Jewish, according to a local business magazine. In ranking the country’s top ten charitable donors for 2012, the Lviv-based Galytski Kontrakty weekly recently gave the top slot to 46-year-old Rinat Akhmetov, a businessman born to a coalminer. Forbes Magazine estimated his fortune at $16 billion in 2012. He…
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Fast Forward Pol’s Anti-Semitic Tirade Againt Mila Kunis
Ukrainian Jews have protested their government’s backing of a nationalist politician’s anti-Semitic tirade about actress Mila Kunis. The controversy began last month when lawmaker Igor Miroshnichenko of the anti-Semitic Svoboda Party wrote on Facebook that Mila Kunis, an American actress who was born in Ukraine, was “not Ukrainian but a Jewess.” He used the offensive…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Premier Reassures Jews Over Far Right
Despite recent electoral gains by Ukraine’s far right, extremists will not “highjack government priorities” on encouraging Ukrainian Jewish life, Ukraine’s premier reportedly said. In a meeting on Nov. 20, Premier Mykola Azarov told the country’s chief rabbi, Yaacov Bleich, “not to be alarmed” by the entry of the far-right Svoboda party into parliament in last…
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Fast Forward European Jews Worry About Ukraine Extremists
The head of the European Jewish Association has called on the Ukrainian government to ensure the safety of the country’s Jews in the wake of the election to parliament of an anti-Semitic party. “We are not presuming of course, to interfere in internal Ukraine affairs and its voters’ decisions, however we are very concerned about…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Party Gains in Ukraine Election
The Ukrainian ultranationalist Svoboda Party has made unprecedented gains in the country’s parliamentary elections, where it garnered 12 percent of the vote. Svoboda – or Freedom Party – has gained a reputation as an anti-Semitic movement due to anti-Jewish statements by its leaders. Sunday’s vote means the party can now control a faction in parliament…
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Fast Forward Jewish Doctor Beaten to Death in Ukraine
A Jewish doctor in Lviv, Ukraine, was beaten to death by an assailant identified by some local news sources as a 26-year-old Arab. Local news reports identified the victim as Leon Freifeld, 67, a prominent member of the small Lviv Jewish community who headed the traumatology and orthopedic department at a local hospital and also…
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