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Fast Forward Weapons have been heading from Israel to Ukraine — out of an American stockpile
Israel has declined to send weapons of its own, out of concerns about inflaming tensions with Russia
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Yiddish World Yiddish film offers authentic recreation of shtetl life before it was destroyed
The title leaves the ‘e’ out of ‘shtetl’ as a symbol of what was lost.
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Fast Forward Number of Russian Jews down sharply in last decade, pre-Ukraine war census reveals
Jews have flooded out of Russia since the war began, further depressing a shrinking population
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Fast Forward Moscow’s former chief rabbi: ‘The best option for Russian Jews is to leave’
He argued that Russia’s floundering invasion of Ukraine is starting to foster an environment in which Jews could be scapegoated
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Forwarding the News ‘Shout it to the world’: Ukrainian Jewish soldier shares story from the frontlines
George Santos set to take office amid 'Jew-ish' scandal, Israel to adopt more pro-Russian line in war, Ohio Holocaust memorial becomes a national monument, and remembering Barbara Walters.
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News The 18 biggest Jewish stories of 2022
Antisemites came out of the shadows this year — as did Jewish heroes
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News A Ukrainian Jew made aliyah. Now he’s back in his homeland fighting Russia
Know as ‘Yevrey’ — Ukrainian for ‘Jew’ — he’s helped defend Kyiv and care for his hometown’s elderly
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Opinion Ukraine’s survival is a modern-day Hanukkah miracle
Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s surprise visit to Washington reminds us what we’re celebrating
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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
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Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
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Culture In Peter Yarrow’s legacy, an uneasy blend of Jewish values and personal transgressions
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News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
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Opinion What a remarkable Torah rescued from Iran — then LA’s fire — can teach about community amid devastation
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Fast Forward Israel’s judicial overhaul is back. So are the protests.
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Opinion After 15 months of war, Israelis are all scaffolding, helping hold each other up
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
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