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Given the weakening of central power in Russia, many parts of this huge country are also becoming more autonomous, but by default rather than design. Birobidzhan is one of them, but the problem here is that there are so few Jews left that it cannot claim to have an ethnic identity that...
outlandish stories, to mysterious kind of explanations for the unknown, for the idea of the person who's behind the scenes kind of pulling the strings for explanations of the world that perhaps rely on things like aliens or lizard people or that the Jews are all kind of conspiring against ...
MediumThere are parallels, obviously. They’re both in the SS. They both believe in Nazism. They both believe that the enemies of Nazism, in particular the Jews, had to be exterminated because they were trying to destroy German and European, indeed world civilization, a kind of paranoid del...
I hail from the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), where my family lived in full “glory” under its Communist regime. Like many Jewish families, we fled with just about nothing in the midst of the ongoing Cold War, and even though I was just a child, the lessons of that period left a ...
example of a disconnect between Berlin and the Beltway emerged in the form of a political cartoon by a longtime Politico cartoonist that drew backlash on Tuesday for suggesting that Jews are using “centuries of pogroms, antisemitism and the Holocaust” as an excuse for Israel’s war in Gaza....
Jews from around the globe world have begun to celebrate Rosh Hashanah this evening, starting at sundown. The holiday of Rosh Hashanah is also known as the Jewish New Year. This day is among the holiest days in Judaism — and it begins on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of...
I don’t think sanctions are absolutely necessary or unnecessary— but beyond apartheid South Africa in the 80s and possibly the BDS movement, it’s hard to think of sanctions that have been effective. Russia does not seem deterred in its war against Ukraine, no matter how many sanctions the...
The West recognized the Soviet referendum in Ukraine in 1990, but not the one in 2014. Yet the right of peoples to self-determination does apply to the Crimeans. The West argues that many Russian soldiers were present without wearing their uniforms. True, but the results of the two referendu...