As war rages in Ukraine, Boris Zakharov and a network of human-rights activists stretching from Kyiv to Brooklyn are organizing rescue missions
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s electoral base is in Canada’s Ukrainian diaspora community, which has rebranded Nazi collaborators as nationalist war heroes
A group of ex-Soviets waits for visas and forms unexpected alliances on an Italian beach
As refugees streamed out of Ukraine, an Israeli man offered shelter to the descendants of the people who once saved his ancestors from the Nazis. It wasn’t quite as simple as it seemed.
What an old rebbe’s fable can teach us about the war in Ukraine
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The legendary Soviet political prisoner and Israeli government minister on the war in Ukraine, the two Vladimirs, and the implications for the Middle East
Israel’s last wave of Ukrainian and Russian Jews is preparing to absorb the next one
The absurdities of this historical moment, as embodied by President Zelensky, point us to the deeper truths of Ukraine’s messy identity, which is proving to be a more powerful construction than Putin’s authoritarian nostalgia
The Russian leader’s actions express essential and unalterable truths about human nature, which we ignore at our peril
But it will take more than a war to undo decades of emotional and economic investment in the Russian state
The funnyman who became a warrior and founded a new Europe
Even in the face of certain death, Ukrainians are displaying heroism worthy of the darkest days of World War II
By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come
Yearning for a peace that falls like wildflowers
The pleasurable hours leading up to the first explosions already belong to a past life that Ukrainians will not know again for a long time
Massacres of over 100,000 Jews between 1918 and 1921 paved the way for the Nazi Holocaust-by-bullets