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“It took U.S. experts too much time to realize that the Russian war against Ukraine is our war,” Ukraine-born historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern told JNS.

Chicago’s Ukrainian Jewish community reflects on war and troubled history of Soviet past

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Ukrainian Jews who have settled in Illinois since war began in their country a year ago report that the state has been largely pro-Ukraine and that those who seemed initially hesitant to support the...
Jacob Greenblatt delivers a load of white leghorns to Vineland Station for transport to Front Street in Philadelphia in 1915. Source: stockton.edu.

New Jersey Jewish farming colony archive gets $24,500 grant to digitize materials

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Stockton University’s Alliance Heritage Center has won a $24,500 grant to digitize the archives of the Alliance Colony, a Jewish farming community founded in southern New Jersey in the late 19th century. The center’s archives include physical...
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Photographer RM/Shutterstock.

Russia orders Jewish Agency to alter operations inside country

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Russia has ordered the Jewish Agency for Israel to modify its operations inside the country in a move that could hamper the organization’s ability to function, according to Israeli media reports. The development comes amid...
A ceremony in the Tzora Forest near the city of Beit Shemesh marks 30 years since Israel established diplomatic relations with the Russian Federation, July 7, 2021. Photo by Yosi Zelliger.

Israel, Russian Federation plant trees to celebrate 30 years of ‘blooming’ relations

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Israel and the Russian Federation celebrated 30 years of diplomatic ties with a ceremonial planting of 30 trees in central Israel on Wednesday. The ceremony took place at the Tzora Forest, a large swath of...
Irina Shur. Credit: Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Holocaust survivor stabbed to death in Moscow apartment

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A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was discovered stabbed to death last week in her apartment in Moscow. An unidentified 69-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the murder of Irina Shur, a former professor at the...

June 3, 1885: Sverdlov The Bolshevik, was born

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Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov, the author of Russia’s revolutionary constitution and one of the chief planners of the 1917 October Revolution, was born in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia on this date in 1885....
Russian vending kiosk in Waltrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, September 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany eases immigration regulations for Jews coming from former Soviet Union

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Germany’s government has announced that it has eased immigration rules for Jews arriving from the former Soviet Union. The new regulations will primarily impact Jews that are more than 60 years old and handicapped, in...
Blue and White Party leader Benny Gantz and Yisrael Beiteinu Party head Avigdor Lieberman hold a joint statement after meeting in Ramat Gan on March 9, 2020. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

New Russian Jewish group seeks to mend Israel-Diaspora ties

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Israel is currently battling two simultaneous crises: the first with the deadly coronavirus pandemic and another on the political front with advocates on both sides arguing that democracy is under threat. Amid the political fallout,...
Chief Sephardi rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks in the city of Tiberias, northern Israel, May 24, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90

Israelis should emulate American Jewish attempts at unity

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The great divide between the ultra-Orthodox minority and the non-Orthodox majority in the American Jewish community was hard to miss lately. The march against anti-Semitism from Lower Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge was almost...
Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef at a conference in Rosh Pina, Northern Israel. Aug. 22, 2018. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Netanyahu lauds Soviet immigrants, criticizes harsh remarks by chief rabbi

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized as “outrageous and inappropriate” recent comments by Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi about immigrants from the former Soviet Union. According to Ynet, at a rabbinical gathering in Jerusalem last week, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef...