Putin delivers false history at Yad Vashem event
The Russian president’s claim that 40 per cent of Jewish Holocaust victims were from the Soviet Union is absurd, historians said.
Opinion: A complicated relationship with Russia
Ruty Korotaev reflects on her visit to her parents’ homeland – a trip with many mixed feelings.
Chief rabbi discusses Jewish life in Vladimir Putin’s Russia during Canadian tour
Jewish life in Russia is flourishing and that “rebirth” can be attributed largely to President Vladimir Putin, said Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chabad-Lubavitch’s head emissary to the Russian Federation.
The roots of Russian anti-Semitism
History has shown that anti-Semitism has been a big part of the Russian-Jewish experience, and has affected many generations of Jews living within the Russian Empire.
Vladimir Putin’s ‘No. 1 enemy’ urges G7 to sanction Russian officials
Bill Browder, who amassed billions of dollars in an investment fund in Russia in the early 1990s, is on a relentless mission to expose the Russian president as, not only corrupt, but having blood on his hands.
The miracle of Soviet Jewry
In Soviet Jewry we see the story of survival against all odds, the miracle of light persevering against the worst kind of darkness, play out not over thousands of years, but over the course of a single century.
After passage of Magnitsky law, Cotler urges others to follow suit
Irwin Cotler is urging Canada to use its influence to persuade other countries to adopt a so-called Magnitsky law.
The secrets of the Jewish cemetery of Sestroretsk
The deserted Jewish cemetery can be rightfully called the most peculiar and interesting burial place of the Kurtony region
A Taste of Russia introduces Russian culture to Canadians
The annual Taste of Russia festival, which took place on June 11, is only in its second year, and is already one of the biggest Russian events in Toronto.
Your daily spiel for Monday, May 29
In today’s spiel: Man arrested in Portland reportedly a known white supremacist; where were the Israeli films at Cannes? and Kushner reportedly encouraged to take leave of absence.
