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Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah delivers an address marking “Resistance and Liberation Day,” May 25, 2021. Source: Al Manar.

Nasrallah denies sending fighters to Ukraine to battle alongside Russia

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The head of Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist group has denied reports that the group is sending fighters to Ukraine to battle alongside Russian forces, according to Reuters. “No one from Hezbollah, neither a fighter nor an expert,...
Ukrainian refugees and their hosts celebrate Purim with a reading of the Megillah and the shaking of a grogger in the national colors of Ukraine at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre and Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, March 17, 2022. Photo by Zsolt Demecs.

Hungarian Jews mark Purim with Ukrainian refugees, stressing peace

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Hundreds, most of them refugees from Ukraine, attended the Purim ceremony at the Zsilip Jewish Cultural Centre and Synagogue in Budapest, where they heard the reading of the Megillah. Prior to the program, the EMIH-Hungarian...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran

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In his address to the U.S. Congress this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. President Joe Biden in a plea for American air defenses against Russian bombardment from the sky: “You are the leader of...
Ukrainian rescuers check the remains of a school in Chernigiv after the Russian shelling of the city, March 6, 2022. Credit: Міністерство внутрішніх справ України via Wikimedia Commons.

Biden’s priority is appeasing Iran, not helping Ukraine

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If you listen to Biden administration spokespeople and the talking heads that form their mainstream media cheering section, you may think you know what is its foreign-policy priority: to do anything short of war...
Sennheiser Microphone. Credit: ChrisEngelsma via Wikimedia Commons.

Russia bans access to two Israeli Russian-speaking websites for its citizens

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Russia blocked off access for its citizens to 30 websites worldwide, including two Russian-language Israeli websites, Maariv reported on Wednesday. The two Israeli websites are Channel 9, a Russian-speaking Israeli television station, and Vesti, a Russian-language news website that...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressing Congress. March 16, 2022. Source: Screenshot.

Jewish lawmakers moved by Zelensky address, mixed on next steps to support Ukraine

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After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by video to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday morning, Jewish members were moved by Zelensky’s speech, though expressed slightly varied positions on what to do next. During...
A close-up of the damage to the yeshivah, March 15, 2022. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

Kharkiv yeshivah takes direct hit from Russian rocket fire, no one injured

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A boys’ yeshivah in Kharkiv, Ukraine, that also serves as a synagogue was damaged on Tuesday after it was hit directly by rocket fire—the third Jewish communal building to be damaged in the city. Chabad-Lubavitch of...
LeMa’anam, an association of doctors who treat Holocaust survivors voluntarily, has sent a large delegation of medical and humanitarian aid to refugees in Moldova, March 2022. Credit: Courtesy.

Physicians for Holocaust survivors provide medical care to Ukrainian refugees

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LeMa’anam, an association of doctors who treat Holocaust survivors voluntarily, has sent a large delegation of medical and humanitarian aid to refugees in Moldova. The delegation includes 35 doctors and primary-care physicians for families and children,...
United Hatzalah distributes kosher food, medicine and other items to Ukrainian refugees in Moldova as the Russian war continues, March 2022. Source: United Hatzalah/Twitter.

United Hatzalah sends 16 tons of aid, medical supplies to refugees in Moldova

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United Hatzalah announced on Tuesday that it started sending airlifts with humanitarian aid directly from Israel to Moldova, which has taken in tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees. The first cargo plane, carrying 16 tons...
Ukrainian civilians and soldiers take shelter under a bridge in Kyiv, March 5, 2022. Credit: Міністерство внутрішніх справ України via Wikimedia Commons.

Why does the world care what Israel does about Ukraine?

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It has long been axiomatic that Israel—a tiny country whose people comprise a tenth of a percent of the world’s population and whose land mass is an exponentially smaller fraction of a percent of...