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Israel considers expanding Return law to help Russians flee war

Avigdor Lieberman has proposed allowing those with one Jewish great-grandparent to make aliyah

By Felix Pope

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Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman speaks to members of the media at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, September 11, 2022. (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RONEN ZVULUN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman for Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, in the town of Uman, about 200km from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, on September 25, 2022. - Tens of thousands of Jewish pilgrims flock despite war to Ukrainian city of Uman for their annual pilgrimage to Rabbi Nachman from Breslov (1772-1810), founder of an ultra-Orthodox movement that settled in Uman in the early 1800s. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

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Despite war and Iranian drones, Chasidic pilgrims flock to Uman

By Daniel Ben-David

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Jewish politician jailed in Russia after comparing Soviet regime to Nazis

By Felix Pope

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Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master

By David Herman

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Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev

By Andrew Rosemarine

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The ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbatchev (L) shakes hands with former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's widow Leah, under the gaze of former Israeli Nobel peace prize Shimon Peres (R), 10 January at the memorial in Tel Aviv where Rabin was murdered in 1995. Gorbachev arrived here today to participate in a three-day conference organized by the Peres Center for Peace. A bevy of current and former world leaders will also take part in the event in a bid to breathe economic life into the moribund Middle East peace process. (ELECTRONIC IMAGE) / AFP / SVEN NACKSTRAND (Photo credit should read SVEN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)

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Gorbachev’s place in the heart of our people

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Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

By Colin Shindler

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

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Children in Ukraine and Russia enjoy stories together in London mum's online book club

UK-based expat Dina Berdnikov has created a 'magical world' that allows Jewish youngsters from both sides connect amid the horror of war

By Simon Rocker

2 min read

August 11, 2022 11:30

Children in Ukraine and Russia enjoy stories together in London mum's online book club

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

English translation of the first novel of a writer whose work elicits profound truths about human nature and its motivations

By Mark Glanville

2 min read

August 11, 2022 09:54

Deceit book review: Intriguing introduction to the work of largely forgotten Russian emigre Yuri Felsen

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Putin is using Russian Jews as pawns over Ukraine

The JC Leader, 5 August 2022

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August 8, 2022 13:27

Putin is using Russian Jews as pawns over Ukraine

By David Aberbach

Kidnapping Ukraine’s children echoes darkest days of the tsars

Putin’s latest evil tactic is all too reminiscent of Jews snatched from their families in Russia’s forced conscription in the 19th century

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August 4, 2022 11:46

BERLIN, GERMANY - MARCH 08: Boy waits with his mom as people fleeing war-torn Ukraine arrive from Poland at Hauptbahnhof main railway station on March 08, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Over one million people, mainly Ukrainian women and children as well as foreigners living or working in Ukraine, have fled Ukraine as the current Russian military invasion continues to inflict growing casualties on the civilian population. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Get out now: Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky’s warning to Russia’s Jews as crackdown fears grow

The ex-dissident, who spent nine years in Soviet prisons, issued the bleak warning amid an escalation of President Vladimir Putin’s repression of the Jewish Agency

By Felix Pope

3 min read

August 4, 2022 09:07

Get out now: Soviet refusenik Natan Sharansky’s warning to Russia’s Jews as crackdown fears grow

By Anshel Pfeffer

Russian roulette and the fight to be next PM: Sniping and Jewish Agency crisis

There was an interesting divergence of explanations on offer this week as to why the Russians are suddenly trying to shut down the Agency

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July 28, 2022 10:42

Israeli president Isaac Herzog at a conference at the President's House to mark Awareness Day for the Disappearance of Yemeni Children on June 21, 2022 in Jerusalem. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90

Jewish Agency: Israeli delegation finally allowed to fly to Russia to discuss crisis

A Moscow court is due to hear case for closing the agency’s offices tomorrow

By JC Reporter

1 min read

July 27, 2022 15:30

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MAY 06: Yesh Atid Party leader, Yair Lapid, speaks at a press conference on May 6, 2021 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Israeli President Reuven Rivlin asked Lapid to form a new Israeli government after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a new government. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

Israeli president attempts to calm tensions with Russia over Jewish Agency row

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman accuses Israel of ‘biased rhetoric’ on Ukraine

By JC Reporter

2 min read

July 26, 2022 15:58

Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with Colombian President Ivan Duque during his official visit to israel at the President's residence in Jerusalem,November 08, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussil/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** נשיא ישראל יצחק הרצוג נפגש עם נשיא קולומביה איוון דוקה במהלך ביקורו הרשמי בישראל בבית הנשיא בירושלים

Lapid: Russia’s moves to shut Jewish Agency offices could be 'grave' for relations with Israel

Israel has formed a delegation to hold talks with Russia following a legal move to shutter the agency’s offices

By Ben Bloch

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July 25, 2022 12:54

Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the National Space Centre construction site in Moscow on February 27, 2022. (Photo by Sergei GUNEYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI GUNEYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

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Israel considers expanding Return law to help Russians flee war

Despite war and Iranian drones, Chasidic pilgrims flock to Uman

Jewish politician jailed in Russia after comparing Soviet regime to Nazis

Book review: The People Immortal - A final war novel from a Russian master

Obituary: Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev’s place in the heart of our people

Jews pledged their love to Stalin’s Russia – and he slaughtered them

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