Isabel Sawkins

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Ignore the grim stats about Eastern European Jews

In the context of the communist legacy, relatively low observance rates are really good news

By Isabel Sawkins

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Ukrainian Jewish refugees who fled the war celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim at Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Chisinau on March 16, 2022. - The Jewish refugees wait to be flown to Israel in the coming days. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Children researching the Holocaust online are as likely to find denial as genuine history

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Burning candles in a row in the dark with copy space.

Russia’s history of the Shoah is not the same as ours

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A section of New York's Jewish community carrying a banner reading 'Free Soviet Jews' during the Solidarity Sunday for Soviet Jewry demonstration in protest at the Soviet Union's treatment of Jewish people, in New York City, New York, 13th April 1975. The march ended in a rally where speakers called for the Soviet Union to grant Jews the 'basic rights' to emigrate to Israel and to practice their religion. (Photo by Peter Keegan/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers a speech at The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre, a place of a mass execution of Jews by Nazis in World War II, during a memorial ceremony in Kiev on August 19, 2019. - Some 34,000 Jews were murdered over two days in September 1941 at Babiy Yar, a ravine in Kiev rendering it a symbol of the Holocaust where Nazis shot more than 100,000 people (Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) (Photo credit should read GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images)