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Wreckage of a rocket on a playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the invasion, Feb.24, 2022. (Photo/Fotoreserg via Depositphoto)
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One year after Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pain is still fresh for local emigres

by Sue Fishkoff February 23, 2023March 6, 2023

It’s been a year since Russia launched its brutal attack on Ukraine. For 12 long months, lines of tanks and soldiers have advanced and retreated across Ukrainian territory, carving jagged […]

Images of damage at Hillel Kharkiv posted on Twitter by Hillel International on March 3, 2022.
Posted inWorld

Hillel in Kharkiv bombed, none injured

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 3, 2022March 3, 2022
Rabbi Yaakov Bleich (left) and Rabbi Moshe Azman (right) both claim to be the chief rabbi of Ukraine. (Photo/Forward-Sergei Supinsky-AFP-Getty Images)
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Meet the two men who each claim to be the leader of Ukraine’s Jews

by Jacob Kornbluh and Forward March 3, 2022March 7, 2022
Refugees from Ukraine on the border with Slovakia, Feb. 26, 2022. (Photo/Fotoreserg-Depositphoto)
Posted inFirst Person

The past is not the future for Ukrainian Jews

Joshua Meyers by Joshua Meyers March 2, 2022March 7, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke directly to the world's Jews during an address early Wednesday from his bunker in Kyiv. (Screenshot/ Facebook)
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Zelensky to world’s Jews: ‘Do not remain silent’

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer and JTA March 2, 2022March 3, 2022
Mikhail Fridman (left) and Pyotr Aven (right) in 2017. (Photo/JTA-Mikhail Svetlov-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Sanctions threaten Russia’s Jewish oligarchs and their philanthropy 

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 2, 2022
Jews from Ukraine arrive at a Jewish community center in Chisinau, Moldova, Feb. 25, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Salzman)
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Ukrainian Jews in Bay Area living a ‘nightmare’ from afar

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 1, 2022March 2, 2022
The memorial at Babyn Yar ravine, site of the 1941 massacre.
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Russia bombs Babyn Yar, site of WWII massacre

by Stewart Ain and Forward March 1, 2022
Eugenia Noshenko takes shelter in her basement with a neighbor's children in Poltava, Ukraine, Feb. 25, 2022
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From basement shelter in Ukraine, Jewish leader is ‘grateful for support’

by Sue Fishkoff February 26, 2022February 28, 2022
A Ukrainian soldier gives the thumbs-up as he stands in a snow-covered trench on the frontline with the Russia-backed separatists near Zolote village in the eastern Lugansk region, Ukraine, Jan. 21, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Anatolii Stepanov-AFP via Getty Images)
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Prayer and panic as Ukrainian rabbis guide their communities into a wartime Shabbat

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA February 25, 2022February 25, 2022

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