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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in the glass defendants' cage in the Yekaterinburg courthouse where his trial began on June 26. (Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images)
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Closed-door espionage trial of American Jewish journalist Evan Gershkovich begins in Russia

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 26, 2024June 26, 2024

(JTA) — The closed-door trial of American Jewish reporter Evan Gershkovich began in Russia on Wednesday, 15 months after his arrest there on espionage charges widely regarded as spurious. The […]

A man walks along a building whose facade is covered with Stars of David in the Alesia district of Paris, Oct. 31, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Geoffroy van der Hasselt-AFP via Getty Images)
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As antisemitism spikes across Europe, more fingers are pointing at Russia

by David I. Klein November 28, 2023
American journalist Evan Gershkovich stands inside a defendants' cage at Moscow City Court on June 22, 2023.(Photo/JTA-Natalia Kolesnikova-AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian court rejects appeal to release American journalist Evan Gershkovich

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 22, 2023June 22, 2023
Alina Sivorinovsky, who writes under the pen name Alina Adams, is the author of "My Mother's Secret," which is set in Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region.
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Eat, Pray, Oy Vey: Decision to pull Elizabeth Gilbert’s Russia-set book worries Jewish writers

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten June 16, 2023June 19, 2023
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a court in Moscow court, April 18, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Sefa Karacan-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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US House passes resolution calling on Russia to free Jewish reporter Evan Gershkovich

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg June 15, 2023
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a court in Moscow court, April 18, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Sefa Karacan-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Alliance of Orthodox rabbis calls for immediate release of Evan Gershkovich

Ben Sales by Ben Sales May 30, 2023
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in a court in Moscow court, April 18, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Sefa Karacan-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Russia extends pretrial detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich until August

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg May 23, 2023May 23, 2023
The sign reads "Birobidzhan" in Russian and Yiddish. (Photo/Wikimedia-Rusik_z CC BY-SA 3.0)
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History of Jewish homelands harbors a strange chapter: Birobidzhan

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 8, 2023
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
Dr. Michael Baker next to a monument in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv protected by sandbags, Aug. 2022 (Photo/Courtesy Baker)
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This retired Bay Area surgeon is teaching trauma care to doctors in Ukraine

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 20, 2023

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