It wasn’t until I watched the bombs raining down on my home city of Kyiv that I began to identify, proudly, as a Ukrainian. The…
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The Jews of Ukraine don’t want to ignore their history, and antisemitism hasn’t disappeared. But amid so much suffering, they’ve made a conscious choice Source:…
Russia’s war has shattered Merkel’s legacy. But her coddling of Putin didn’t stop at Ukraine: Germany befriended and empowered every one of his malign, authoritarian-leaning…
Putin has sanctified Russia’s bloody war on Ukraine with a contorted but wildly popular mix of historical memory, Orthodox Christianity and messianic nationalism. It could…
Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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Strategic antisemitism: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s tirade on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Jews and Hitler was no slip of the tongue. It was part…
The loud voices criticizing Israel’s ‘deficient’ support for Ukraine, and their egregious Holocaust analogies, simply don’t recognize that Israel’s careful response to Russia relates to…
The loud voices criticizing Israel’s ‘deficient’ support for Ukraine, and their egregious Holocaust analogies, simply don’t recognize that Israel’s careful response to Russia relates to…
After centuries of Tsarist and Soviet repression, the Putin era was a reversal of fortunes for Russian Jews, particularly for Chabad. But Russia’s Ukraine war…
Recent victories for Hungary’s Orban and Serbia’s Vucic are gifts for Putin. Amidst Russian atrocities in Ukraine, where is Western pressure on Europe’s most Kremlin-friendly…
Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who dramatically demonstrated against the Ukraine war live on Russian TV, wrote in German newspaper Die Welt on why she finally…
As further evidence emerges of the targeted use of rape by Russian forces in Ukraine, a war crime that is notoriously underreported and under-prosecuted, this…
For Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and the rest of the spokespeople for the pro-Russia, pro-authoritarian populist right, U.S. conservatives’ support for Ukraine and for Kyiv’s…
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Ukrainians are not just fighting Russia’s army, they’re fighting an entire worldview that really isn’t interested in freedom – not just for Ukraine, but for…
Just like Pharaoh before him, Putin, by dint of who he is, is simply incapable of accepting change. It will lead him and his people…
There’s never been a shortage of Russian genocidal fantasies about Ukraine but, until recently, they were confined to the political margins. Now, those fantasies and…
Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine has radically ruptured the millions-strong Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora — our own families and friends included. Is the ex-Soviet Jewish world…
There’s never been a shortage of Russian genocidal fantasies about Ukraine but, until recently, they were confined to the margins. Now, those fantasies and their…