Category Archives: Russia

Why Did Stalin Become Anti-Semitic?

In this lecture, Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says: “We come to the synagogue [in Moscow in 1980] and there is a famous picture of Golda Meir when she was the Israeli ambassador to Russia after the founding of the state [of … Continue reading

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Did the Times have to remind the goyim that these “Russian” billionaires are mostly Yidden who worked so hard to make a living?

This is bad for the Jews: Mr. Zalmayev later acknowledged in a deposition that he had been paid $100,000 but had not disclosed that he was working at the behest of Mr. Vavilov when he approached groups including the American … Continue reading

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Does Russia Want War?

Chaim Amalek writes: Does Russia want a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia? What would Iran’s pretext be? One thing is clear. Russia, Putin may well believe, NEEDS a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia to spike up oil prices. … Continue reading

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Two Hundred Years Together

Brian C. Anderson writes about the new biography: Mahoney devotes a chapter to defending Solzhenitsyn’s two-volume history of the relations between Russians and Jews, Two Hundred Years Together, from the accusations of anti-Semitism that some have made against it. The … Continue reading

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Israel Shows The Way Forward

Anthropologist Peter Frost writes: Westernization seemed to be the secret to success. In the 19th century, Ashkenazi Jews embraced it with the fervor of the newly converted, using Yiddishkeit as a vehicle to spread the ideals of the Enlightenment—progress, freedom, … Continue reading

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