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Russian Jews

Yuri Milner (left) and Mark Zuckerberg at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Mountain View, November 2019. (Photo/JTA-Steve Jennings/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize)
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Yuri Milner, ‘Richest Russian in Silicon Valley,’ gives up Russian citizenship

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky October 14, 2022October 17, 2022
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 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
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)
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How to avoid conflict on Victory Day? Take away the microphone.

Olga Grigoryants by Olga Grigoryants and Forward April 27, 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
the two Ukrainian children are seen from behind among a crowd of classmates
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Ukrainian children are finding refuge in an Israeli town and its school for Russian speakers

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
Alena Akselrod: "I was born in Arkhangelsk, Russia. And I am not your enemy."
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Don’t take out your anger on Russian-born American Jews — we’re not the enemy

Alena Akselrod by Alena Akselrod and Forward March 21, 2022

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