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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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In effort to seize Russian assets, the U.S. is taking a page from Chabad

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA May 17, 2022May 17, 2022
Smoke billows among headstones of a Jewish cemetery that reportedly was bombed in Hlukhiv, Ukraine, May 8, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Dmitry Zhivitsky-Facebook)
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Russian shelling damages Jewish cemetery in Ukraine where pogrom victims are buried

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 9, 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, right, shakes hands with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, May 21, 2015. (Photo/JTA-Kremlin media center)
Posted inWorld

Speaking about Zelensky, Russian foreign minister says Hitler also had Jewish ancestry

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA May 2, 2022
Boris Melamed, the president of the Los Angeles Association of Veterans of World War II, stands near his West Hollywood apartment. (Photo/Forward-Olga Grigoryants)
Posted inUncategorized

How to avoid conflict on Victory Day? Take away the microphone.

Olga Grigoryants by Olga Grigoryants and Forward April 27, 2022
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar. 12, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Emin Sansar-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

Zelensky: Ukraine will look more like ‘big Israel’ than Europe in the wake of Russia’s war

by Ron Kampeas and JTA April 6, 2022
Ukrainian troops seen during exercises in Kyiv, Jan. 22, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I am a Ukrainian Jew. I have lost my mother to Russian disinformation

Michael Rozhkov by Michael Rozhkov and Forward April 6, 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)
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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
A view of the memorial, on the site of a mass killing of Jews by Nazis during WWII, a day after it was damaged in a Russian shelling, at the entrance of the Drobitsky Yar Holocaust memorial complex on the eastern outskirts of Kharkiv, Mar. 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sergey Bobok-AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukraine says a memorial to Jews murdered during the Holocaust was damaged by Russian shelling

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA March 29, 2022July 4, 2022
View of Market Square in Lviv, Ukraine
Posted inCulture

Jewish writers from former Soviet Union watch war with fear and recognition

by The Forward and Forward March 17, 2022
Serafim Sabaranskiy, a Ukrainian Jew who volunteered to defend his country, was killed by a Russian missile in Kharkiv, March 13, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy of Yuliya Pototska)
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Serafim Sabaranskiy, a Ukrainian Jew who enlisted to defend his country, dies in a Russian airstrike

Asaf Elia-Shalev by Asaf Elia-Shalev and JTA March 16, 2022

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