June 21, 2022
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Before Feb. 24, Sora Levinson and her husband, Rabbi Chaim, weren’t sure if Russia was going to invade Ukraine. In the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, where they served as […]
Continue readingMay 27, 2022
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Sarah Larsson is inviting just about everyone to come to her wedding. Well, ok, maybe not the wedding ceremony itself. But the Jewish community is definitely invited to the after-party: […]
Continue readingMay 4, 2022
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Editor’s Note: The St. Louis Jewish Light learned of Russian Jew Tatiana Glezer, 41, and her plight through a network of friends in the United States. Largely fluent in English, […]
Continue readingApril 13, 2022
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WASHINGTON — Being in the crowded, confined space of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was uncomfortable for Kevin Smokyday. It wasn’t because of the photos and videos that he saw […]
Continue readingApril 12, 2022
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The Nightingale Trio, an all-woman vocal group in Minnesota that sings Eastern European songs, is giving all proceeds from their cover of a beloved Ukrainian lullaby to the Ukrainian American […]
Continue readingApril 12, 2022
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As the war in Ukraine continues to rage, a centuries-old Passover tradition is being highlighted by students at St. Paul’s Lubavitch Cheder Day School to benefit refugees. Ma’ot chitim — […]
Continue readingApril 6, 2022
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — For the first time since 2019, more than 150 students, rabbis, teachers, and soldiers boarded a pre-dawn flight from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport to spend the day […]
Continue readingApril 1, 2022
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Eleven people were murdered in Israel by terrorists marking it as the deadliest time period within Israel since 2006.
Continue readingApril 1, 2022
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You wouldn’t know that a week ago, Alexandra Sakurets had been working excruciating hours for weeks on end at a makeshift refugee center in a mall in southeast Poland.
Continue readingMarch 30, 2022
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In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Israeli friend contacted Jenna Mitelman and asked her to help two Ukrainian refugees. A single mother and her nine-year-old boy […]
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