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Putin

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar attend a ceremony marking the handover of items in the Schneerson library to a Chabad-run museum in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Yuri Kadobnov-AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia’s Jews are caught in the messy politics of Putin’s war

by Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and Forward February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

One year ago, at 4 a.m., Russian missiles attacked Ukraine, and everything changed. The historic renaissance of Russian Jewry after the fall of communism came to an abrupt halt. Russia […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Sept. 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
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As Putin’s war sputters, antisemitism seeps into the Russian media landscape

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 28, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inColumns

We have faced Amaleks like Putin forever, but with morality we can prevail

George Altshuler by George Altshuler September 9, 2022September 9, 2022
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin visits the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow with the chairman of the Federation of Russia’s Jewish Organizations Alexander Boroda (right) and Russia’s chief rabbi, Berel Lazar, Feb. 19, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Alexey Druzhinin-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Ukraine invasion puts Chabad of Russia ‘between a rock and a hard place’

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 31, 2022March 31, 2022
Borys Romanchenko at the former Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
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Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko, who lived through 4 Nazi camps, killed in Ukraine by Russia strike

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 22, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inOpinion

Stopping Putin starts with holding the fossil fuel industry accountable

by Rabbi Jennie Rosenn and Forward March 15, 2022
Ukrainian troops seen during exercises in Kyiv, Jan. 22, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Putin cites goal of ‘denazification’ of country with Jewish head

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA February 24, 2022
Opposition political leader Alexei Navalny's supporters seen marching in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Jan. 31, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Aleksey Fokin-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Why Russian Jews are divided over the anti-Putin movement

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA February 24, 2021February 24, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Jan. 23, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Yonatan Sindel-Flash90)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

Historians call Putin’s speech at global Auschwitz commemoration ‘completely false’ and ‘ridiculous’

by Sam Sokol and JTA January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint news conference following their summit in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Chris McGrath-Getty Images)
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Understanding the Syria moment at the Trump-Putin news conference

by Ron Kampeas July 16, 2018

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