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UK government sanctions Moshe Kantor, President of European Jewish Congress, for ties to Putin

The Russian oligarch is also a vice president of JLC

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President of the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Moshe Kantor speaks during the Malmo International Forum on Holocaust Remembrance and Combating Antisemitism - Remember ReAct, in Malmo, Sweden, on October 13, 2021 - - Sweden OUT (Photo by Jonas EKSTROMER / TT News Agency / AFP) / Sweden OUT (Photo by JONAS EKSTROMER/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Kyiv on March 3, 2022. - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the West on March 3, 2022, to increase military aid to Ukraine, saying Russia would advance on the rest of Europe otherwise. "If you do not have the power to close the skies, then give me planes!" Zelensky said at a press conference. "If we are no more then, God forbid, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia will be next," he said, adding: "Believe me." (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Rakib Ehsan

The anti-Zelensky coalition brings together a kaleidoscope of ideologies

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As Jews flee Ukraine and Russia, thank God for Israel

The JC Leader

By The JC Leader

As Jews flee Ukraine and Russia, thank God for Israel

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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)

Isabel Sawkins

By Isabel Sawkins

It’s not just Ukrainians trying to flee to Israel

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Volodomyr Zelensky tones down remarks after fiery speech to Israeli parliament

Volodomyr Zelensky tones down remarks after fiery speech to Israeli parliament

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LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is seen prior to the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and Leicester City at Stamford Bridge on May 15, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Paul Gilham/Getty Images)

Roman Abramovich

Roman Abramovich: Portuguese rabbi who helped oligarch claim citizenship arrested

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LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 19: Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is seen on the stand during the Barclays Premier League match between Chelsea and Sunderland at Stamford Bridge on December 19, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images)

Roman Abramovich

UK sanctions Roman Abramovich

By Mathilde Frot

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More from Russia

Gloria Tessler

By Gloria Tessler

These past few days I have been thinking of my grandmother

We are seeing today the same bonds of family, of country, of self-determination and national independence being threatened by a dictator

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March 4, 2022 15:59

Migration crisis on the border with Belarus

Russia will compete in Maccabiah games despite Paralympics ban

The tournament will be held in Israel next year

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March 4, 2022 15:06

General view of the opening ceremony of the 16th Maccabiah games, or Jewish Olympics, at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium 16 July 2001. Two Palestinians were killed earlier in the day while preparing a bomb near the stadium, with Israel on alert for attacks as latest diplomatic steps to halt the bloodshed failed to make headway. AFP PHOTO/Menahem KAHANA (Photo by Menahem KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

Russia chief rabbi and Putin ally condemns violence in Ukraine

Chabad Rabbi Bezel Lazar has offered to act as a mediator for the two sides

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March 2, 2022 16:38

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russia's chief Rabbi Berel Lazar attend a ceremony marking the handover of the Schneerson library at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow, on June 13, 2013 . Putin expressed today hope that the problem of a disputed Jewish archive, known in Russia as the Schneerson library, claimed by the United States was finally put to rest as he visited the rare collection in the newly opened Jewish Museum in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / YURI KADOBNOV (Photo credit should read YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images)

Dominic Green

By Dominic Green

Is this the death knell for the Pax Americana?

The USA currently remains the world's pre-eminent military power, but that won't last forever

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February 24, 2022 11:37

Is this the death knell for the Pax Americana?

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