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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

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

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

By Anshel Pfeffer

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

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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)

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

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

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

By Ben Bloch

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What does this week's Iran-Russia-Turkey summit mean for the Middle East?

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What does this week's Iran-Russia-Turkey summit mean for the Middle East?

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Kremlin moves to shut Moscow branch of Jewish Agency in ‘deplorable and offensive’ move

By Ben Bloch

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Patriots theatre review: The career of an oligarch… and his powerful friend

Playwright Peter Morgan applies his fly-on-the-wall attention to Boris Berezovsky’s dramatic trajectory in a tale set against the fall and rise of Russia

By John Nathan

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Patriots theatre review: The career of an oligarch… and his powerful friend

Russia may block Jews from emigrating, says former Moscow Chief Rabbi

Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt fled the country himself in March

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Russia may block Jews from emigrating, says former Moscow Chief Rabbi

Team Russia no longer competing in Tel Aviv Maccabiah Games

Athletes from Russia and Belarus who have made Aliyah to Israel will still be able to compete under a special flag

By Ben Bloch

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By Nick Cohen

The Eye of Sauron is on Ukraine and it’s coming for us next

If Russia wins, we will have to live with the consequences for decades. Those will include a genuine fear of war, which will mean huge defence spending — and psychological costs

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The Eye of Sauron is on Ukraine and it’s coming for us next

‘Our president’s Jewish... So what?’ say the fighters for a modern Ukraine

Security expert Jonathan Spyer discovers the real reason why soldiers are serving on the Donbas battlefields

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‘Our president’s Jewish... So what?’ say the fighters for a modern Ukraine

Moscow’s Chief Rabbi exiled in Israel amid 'pressure' to support Ukraine invasion

Chief Rabbi Goldschmidt was reportedly approached by the Kremlin and the FSB and put under 'pressure' to support the invasion of Ukraine

By Ben Bloch

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June 9, 2022 16:33

Moscow’s Chief Rabbi exiled in Israel amid 'pressure' to support Ukraine invasion

While conflict in Donbas ramps up again, the mood in Ukraine's capital is grim yet defiant

Suggestions that Ukraine should offer to cede territory in return for peace are greeted with scorn

By Paul Cainer

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June 9, 2022 12:18

While conflict in Donbas ramps up again, the mood in Ukraine's capital is grim yet defiant

By David Aberbach

Russia’s imperialist crimes are all foretold in the Hebrew Bible

The brutal approach of Putin’s army in Ukraine contains echoes of ancient empires, such as the Assyrians and Babylonians

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June 1, 2022 13:19

Woodcut of a war scene with chariots and one of paying tribute from the bronze plates on the Balawat Gates. Commissioned by the Assryian king Ashurnasirpal II. Presently in the Museum. In Springer, Anton, 1888, History of Art Picture Sheets, concise edition (new, completely reworked, systematically ordered edition) - Atlas of the basics of art history from antiquity to the end of the 18th century

From Ukraine's Jewish post office chief, the stamp that shows we'll lick Putin

The sinking of a Russian warship has been immortalised in a stamp conceived by Ukraine’s Jewish postal chief, Igor Smelyansky

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May 26, 2022 12:03

From Ukraine's Jewish post office chief, the stamp that shows we'll lick Putin

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

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

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

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

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

What does this week's Iran-Russia-Turkey summit mean for the Middle East?

Kremlin moves to shut Moscow branch of Jewish Agency in ‘deplorable and offensive’ move

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