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Stories About Ukrainian Jews? Try A 1,000-Year History, The Pale Of Settlement And A Global Diaspora
Stories About Ukrainian Jews? Try A 1,000-Year History, The Pale Of Settlement And A Global Diaspora

(OPINION) Ukraine has one of the five largest Jewish communities in Europe. Prior to the start of the current civilian refugee exodus, Ukrainian Jews numbered an estimated 100,000-200,000 individuals, down from nearly a half-million in 1989.

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OpinionIra RifkinIra rifkin, Odessa, Ukraine, Pale of Settlement, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Baltimore Jewish Times, Volodymyr Zelensky, Miami Herald, JTA, Oligarch, Brighton Beach, American Jewish Committee, Joe Biden, Ashkenazi, Holocaust, Anti-Semitism, Ukrainian Jews, Ukrainian Jewish, Jews in UkraineComment
PBS story on Iran's Jews doesn't fully explain what captive minorities must do to survive
PBS story on Iran's Jews doesn't fully explain what captive minorities must do to survive

(COMMENTARY) In late November, PBS NewsHour broadcast a piece that, like other attempts to explain the Iranian Jewish community, came up frustratingly short.

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Middle East, Religion, OpinionIra RifkinIra Rifkin, Iran, Jews, media literacy, Cohler-Esses, Zionist, Israel, Reza Sayah, Iranian Jews, captive minorities, Tibetan Buddhism, The Forward, PBS, China, Russia, Hezbollah, JTA, Jehovah's Witnesses, Hamas, Muslims Uighurs, Zionism, Larry Cohler-Esses, Fared Zakaria, Judaism