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    G7 and the End of Days

    Gorbachev dismantled his country’s empire. He was either visionary or crazy. Is Donald Trump now doing the same to America’s global hegemony? If so, why?

    byPaul Berman
  • The synagogue in Shepetovka
    The synagogue in Shepetovka
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    Digging Up My Jewish Roots in My Grandfather’s Ukrainian Village

    My grandfather told me his hometown no longer existed. But I found it—and finally came to appreciate my own heritage.

    byDavid Kalis
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    (American Jewish Historical Society)
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    How We Freed Soviet Jewry

    Twenty-five years ago today, a rally of 250,000 people changed the fate of Jews worldwide. An oral history.

    byAllison Hoffman
  • Ethiopian Jews sit on board an Israeli Air Force Boeing 707 during their transfer from Addis Ababa to Tel Aviv on May 25, 1991. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
    Ethiopian Jews sit on board an Israeli Air Force Boeing 707 during their transfer from Addis Ababa to Tel Aviv on May 25, 1991. (Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Shamir’s Greatest Legacy?

    On the late prime minister’s watch, over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in a day and a half

    byStephen Spector
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Vitaly Armand/AFP/Getty Images and map University of Texas Libraries.)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo Vitaly Armand/AFP/Getty Images and map University of Texas Libraries.)
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    The Cold War’s Arab Spring: How the Soviets Created Today’s Middle East

    Stolen Kremlin records show how the Soviets, including Gorbachev, created many of today’s Middle East conflicts

    byClaire Berlinski
  • An iconic photo of the most famous refusenik activists, taken in 1976: Front row, left to right: Vitaly Rubin, Anatoly Shcharansky, Ida Nudel, and Alexander Lerner. Second row: Vladimir Slepak, Lev Ovsishcher, Alexander Druk, Yosef Beilin, and Dina Beilin.(Beit Hatfutsot Archive)
    An iconic photo of the most famous refusenik activists, taken in 1976: Front row, left to right: Vitaly Rubin, Anatoly Shcharansky, Ida Nudel, and Alexander Lerner. Second row: Vladimir Slepak, Lev Ovsishcher, Alexander Druk, Yosef Beilin, and Dina Beilin.(Beit Hatfutsot Archive)
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    Last Exit

    In Gal Beckerman’s telling, the story of the Soviet Jewry movement becomes one of modern Jewish history’s great dramas

    byAdam Kirsch
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