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    An old synagogue in Birobidzhan.
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    Off the Rails in Birobidzhan

    Anything for a vegetable in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, Siberia

    byJonathan Arlan
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    Masha Gessen Named Carnegie Fellow

    Organization honors author of ‘The Brothers,’ a book about Boston Marathon bombers

    byJonathan Zalman
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    Occupy Wall Street! The Jewish CP-Friendly 1930s Version

    ‘The Left Front’ highlights American art made for the Soviet Union’s official “Jewish homeland”

    byJ. Hoberman
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    Before Crimea Was an Ethnic Russian Stronghold, It Was a Potential Jewish Homeland

    Jews have lived in the area since ancient times, and leaders from Catherine the Great to Stalin encouraged their settlement there

    byJeffrey Veidlinger
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    Dispatches from Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region

    Courtesy of Masha Gessen

    bySara Ivry
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    Sundown: One Last KISS?

    N.Y. pols abandon J Street, a rough pageant, and a would-be Jewish state

    byHadara Graubart
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