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Anna Voloshyna (Photo/Anastasia Blackman) is the author of "Budmo!"
Posted inOrganic Epicure

‘Budmo!’ Ukrainian émigré Anna Voloshyna’s timely new cookbook

Alix Wall by Alix Wall October 17, 2022November 7, 2022
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)
Posted inUncategorized

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
A synagogue built last year at the Babyn Yar memorial site near Kyiv is meant to resemble a pop-up book. It can fold up and open with a winch. (Photo/JTA-David Saveliev)
Posted inUncategorized

Across Ukraine, a somber High Holiday season captures how war has ravaged a growing Jewish community

by David Saveliev, Nicholas Bennett and JTA October 4, 2022October 4, 2022
Maria Litichevska and her son, Mark, fled Ukraine in the days following Russia's attack in February 2022. (Photo/Courtesy Litichevska).
Posted inBay Area

With years of experience, local Jewish agencies assist Ukrainian refugees

by Sue Fishkoff September 30, 2022October 3, 2022
Volunteer translator Zhenya Leonov (right) helps volunteer attorney Nick Keats (center) talk to a woman who recently arrived from Ukraine at a legal services clinic at JFCS San Francisco in 2022.
Posted inBay Area

Former refugees in Bay Area pay it forward by helping new Ukrainian arrivals

by Sue Fishkoff September 30, 2022September 30, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a concert at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Sept. 20, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

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
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
Political science professor Maksym Gon is at the front in the Donbas region of Ukraine, defending the country from the Russian army. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Gon)
Posted inWorld

This Jewish Ukrainian professor could still be teaching. He chose to go to war instead.

by Helen Chervitz and Forward August 10, 2022August 11, 2022

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