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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
Zhanetta Butenko's house was partially destroyed when a rocket crashed through its roof in early March in Hostemel, Ukraine. (Photo/JTA-Jacob Judah)
Posted inWorld

‘The Jews have arrived’: In Bucha and other decimated towns near Kyiv, a Jewish group distributes sorely-needed supplies

by Jacob Judah and JTA September 14, 2022
Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar delivers a speech during an emergency gathering of rabbis in Moscow, Russia, Sept. 5, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia)
Posted inWorld

In rare and delicate statement, Russia’s Chabad rabbis call to ‘end the suffering’ in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA September 8, 2022September 8, 2022
Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev at the European Parliament in Brussels, May 26, 2008. (Photo/European Parliament-Pietro Naj-Oleari CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Posted inObituaries

Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader whose reforms included letting Jews leave for Israel, dies at 91

by Ron Kampeas and JTA August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Mikhail Gorbachev at Edinburgh Airport at the end of a week-long trip to the U.K., Dec. 21, 1984. (Photo/JTA-Bryn Colton-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev’s mixed legacy on the Jews

by Benjamin Ivry and Forward August 31, 2022
During the Cold War, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union was tightly restricted. (Photo/RNS-Dzurag-iStock via Getty Images Plus)
Posted inOpinion

New Russian threats to shut down Jewish Agency raise old alarm bells

Shaul Kelnerlogo of The Conversation by Shaul Kelner and The Conversation August 12, 2022
Rabbi Shaul Horowitz (right) meets a Jewish refugee attending a service at the synagogue of Vinnytsia in June 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Shaul Horowitz)
Posted inWorld

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 21, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Hebrew University in Jerusalem, June 23, 2022. (Screenshot/JTA-YouTube)
Posted inWorld

Zelensky singles out Israel for refusing to join international sanctions against Russia

Jackie Hajdenberg by Jackie Hajdenberg and JTA June 23, 2022
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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Chabad vs. Russia; Swastika vs. hakenkreuz; Forgotten bakeries; etc.

by J. Readers June 7, 2022
(Illustration/Forward-Nikki Casey
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Putin is no match for my Jewish Ukrainian babushka

Florina Rodov by Florina Rodov and Forward June 1, 2022

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