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  • Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport
    Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport
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    My Great-Grandfather, Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Lamport, Author of ‘Piskei ha-Gra’

    With some of his writings being reprinted for an Orthodox audience, my relative’s scholarly achievements are revealed

    byNatalie Zemon Davis
  • Belarusian opposition supporters attend a rally in Minsk to protest the disputed Aug. 9 presidential election results, on Sept. 6, 2020. Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has refused to quit after his disputed reelection and turned to Russia for help to stay in power.
    Belarusian opposition supporters attend a rally in Minsk to protest the disputed Aug. 9 presidential election results, on Sept. 6, 2020. Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has refused to quit after his disputed reelection and turned to Russia for help to stay in power.
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    Dispatch: Crushing Democracy in Belarus

    With his regime’s survival threatened by mass protests, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko gives up on trying to balance East and West

    byVladislav Davidzon
  • Minsk, Aug. 16, 2020
    Minsk, Aug. 16, 2020
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    A Popular Revolt Against a Pro-Russian Dictator, in Belarus

    Dispatch from the protests where, unlike in Western Europe, tattooed demonstrators with purple hair and skinny jeans also wear large crosses

    byVladislav Davidzon
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    Belarusian President Spouts Anti-Semitism

    Alyaksandr Lukashenko wants ‘all Jews in Belarus under control’

    byTal Trachtman Alroy
  • Plainclothes Belarusian police arrest an opposition supporter at a Day of Freedom rally in Minsk on March 25, 2011.(Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)
    Plainclothes Belarusian police arrest an opposition supporter at a Day of Freedom rally in Minsk on March 25, 2011.(Viktor Drachev/AFP/Getty Images)
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    WikiTargeted

    WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange preaches openness. But in Belarus, Europe’s last dictator is using once-secret U.S. cables to go after dissidents.

    byKapil Komireddi
  • The Soviet siege of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), April 1945.(Getty Images)
    The Soviet siege of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad), April 1945.(Getty Images)
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    Devastated

    Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands contextualizes the story of Eastern European Jewry’s sad fate without relativizing it

    byAdam Kirsch
  • Anna Oder and Yakov Fishman renewing their vows.(Irina Vaulin)
    Anna Oder and Yakov Fishman renewing their vows.(Irina Vaulin)
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    Under the Chuppah

    Preparing to officiate at my parents’ wedding-vow renewal, I discovered a connection to Judaism I didn’t know I had

    byBoris Fishman
  • A sculpture of Marc Chagall behind the Vitebsk home in which he was raised.(Diana Markosian)
    A sculpture of Marc Chagall behind the Vitebsk home in which he was raised.(Diana Markosian)
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    Favorite Son

    Belarus embraces Chagall but leaves his Jewishness at the door

    byJudith Matloff
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