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In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews

In Ukraine, a long history of Russian crimes against Jews

Benjamin Ivry, The ForwardPublished February 28, 2022

This story was originally published on Feb. 28, by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. Tragic events now unfolding in Ukraine echo a history of Russian human rights offenses against Jews...

Eric Mink

‘Frontline’ cuts through the noise of Trump-Russia-election scandal

BY ERIC MINKPublished October 4, 2018

On Friday, Sept. 28, at the end of one of the busier non-war, non-natural-disaster U.S. news weeks in some time, BuzzFeed.com responded to what it saw as extreme news fatigue among American readers. As a public service, the news site republished a story...

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Anadolu AgencyPublished June 12, 2018

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho speaks at a meeting with Russian officials in Pyongyang, North Korea, May 31, 2018. (Russian Foreign Press and Information Office/Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Apples, Oranges and Sanctions

Jewish Light EditorialPublished August 2, 2017

Faced with lopsided, veto-proof approval in both houses of Congress, President Donald Trump wisely pledged to sign into law sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea. He initially voiced strong opposition to the bill because it would place restrictions...

Ben Cohen writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics.  The senior editor of  The Tower Magazine and TheTower.org, Cohen is the author of “Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism.”

Netanyahu’s Russian realism

By Ben CohenPublished June 29, 2016

These are the days that Vladimir Putin has been aching for since the end of the Cold War. On Dec. 5, 1989, three weeks after the Berlin Wall was torn down, angry crowds stormed the Dresden Headquarters of the Stasi, the brutal secret police of the Soviet...

‘Little Rose’

Political drama with romantic edge set in Communist Poland

By Cate Marquis, Special to the Jewish LightPublished June 6, 2012

The political, historic drama “Little Rose” is one of the many excellent films in this year’s St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. “Little Rose,” in Polish and French with English subtitles, is also one of several Polish (or part ly Polish) films...

Israeli-Arabs demonstrate against Assad

JTAPublished February 19, 2012

JERUSALEM -- Israeli Arabs demonstrated against Syrian President Bashar Assad a day after the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning his crackdown on dissenters. The General Assembly voted Feb. 16 by a vote of 137 to 12 with...

Letters to the editor, week of Feb. 15, 2012

Published February 15, 2012

‘Way of Heaven' was outstanding NJT play I am disappointed that I have not seen any positive reviews of the play "Way to Heaven" performed by the New Jewish Theatre. In my opinion, the production at the NJT was outstanding and is in fact one of the...

Editorial: Russian to Judgment?

Published February 8, 2012

In what should not have been a surprise to those who view the foreign policies of Russia and China in historical context, those two autocratic regimes used their veto to block even a watered-down resolution calling upon Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad...

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