A Sad Shavuot in Tel Aviv - Huffington Post (blog)

A Sad Shavuot in Tel Aviv
Huffington Post (blog)
HIAS was founded in 1881 to secure sanctuary for Jews fleeing the mob violence of the pogroms in Russia. Today, we assist migrants of all faiths in Israel, the United States, and ten other countries spanning five continents.

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This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin - Cleveland Jewish News (blog)

This Day, May 24, In Jewish History by Mitchell A. Levin
Cleveland Jewish News (blog)
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, on to Russian Jewish parents Maurice David and Doris (Shoshone) Micklin, she graduated from Omaha Central High School in 1952 and Sarah Lawrence College in 1956. Fresh out of college, she married Raphael D. Silver, ...

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Russia's New Propaganda Minister - The Moscow Times


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Russia's New Propaganda Minister
The Moscow Times
The country's history of anti-Semitism, Medinsky claimed, was largely limited to the Black Hundreds and a few pogroms more than a century ago. In reality, of course, state-sponsored anti-Semitism — including strict quotas on Jews in prominent ...

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Their Sense of Belonging - Wall Street Journal

Their Sense of Belonging
Wall Street Journal
Yet for half a millennium, as Antony Polonsky records in his exemplary and formidable three-volume work of historical synthesis, Poland and Russia were the world Jewish homeland. The most important country in early modern Jewish history is one that few ...

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Russian refusenik remembers Jerusalem - Ynetnews


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Russian refusenik remembers Jerusalem
Ynetnews
Jews would turn and pray in the direction of Jerusalem three times a day. There were even efforts throughout history where Jewish people attempted to restore political sovereignty over the city and re-establish it as the national capital.
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VIEWPOINTS: Jewish-American immigrant experience worth celebrating - al.com (blog)


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VIEWPOINTS: Jewish-American immigrant experience worth celebrating
al.com (blog)
This proclamation recognized the many notable contributions to American life and culture made by Jewish Americans. Looking back, nostalgia and sentimentality are our response to the Jewish American immigrant experience. American Jewish history can be ...

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Sophie Goldstein, chronicler of Jewish history in Saratoga Springs, dies at 102 - The Saratogian

Sophie Goldstein, chronicler of Jewish history in Saratoga Springs, dies at 102
The Saratogian
... of Jewish history died Monday at the age of 102. Sophie Goldstein moved to Saratoga Springs in 1939, and with the exception of a decade in the second half of the century, she lived in Saratoga Springs the rest of her life. Born in Russia in 1909, ...

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Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day - Haaretz (blog)


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Thank you, Russian immigrant to Israel, for Nakba Day
Haaretz (blog)
It is relevant because for decades, the Jews of Soviet Russia were forbidden to commemorate their heritage. They were barred - with artfully worded and intensively enforced official repression - from gathering to study their true history, ...
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Limmud FSU coming to Princeton - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Limmud FSU coming to Princeton
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
(JTA) -- More than 500 young Russian-American Jews are expected to gather at Princeton University for a Limmud FSU conference. The conference, which is designed to bring its participants closer to Jewish history and culture, will take place on the New ...

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Rudy Giuliani's New Low - Tablet Magazine

Rudy Giuliani's New Low
Tablet Magazine
And the grape itself couldn't be more Jewish. By James Kirchick|May 24, 2012 7:00 AM|4comments Rudy Giuliani (middle), with Serbian Progressive Party Leader Tomislav Nikolic (left) and Deputy Leader Aleksandar Vucic at a news conference in Belgrade on ...

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