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An employee of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, right, hands out an aid package to a Jewish woman in Kharkiv, Ukraine during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. (Courtesy of JDC)

Far-right Israeli minister finds enemy in JDC, the mainstream American Jewish aid group

Itamar Ben-Gvir calls the Joint Distribution Committee, which since 1914 has distributed billions in dollars of aid across 70 countries, including Israel, a “leftist organization.”

In Ukraine, Jewish charity buys 40 electric cars to manage rising costs of delivering aid

Since Russia invaded in February, normal fuel prices have skyrocketed.

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

“It feels like we’ve gone back in time to 30 years ago,” said one rabbi in Vinnytsia, where half the Jews have left amid deadly Russian attacks.

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Ukraine’s Jews hunker down as long-feared Russian invasion becomes deadly reality

Herzel Simon celebrates Hanukkah at his home in Mumbai, India on Dec. 29, 2020. (Courtesy of Simon)

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Amid pandemic misery, India’s Jews try to stay safe while offering relief to the hardest hit

Zoya Avadayev discusses cooking Jewish dishes with Rabbi Tsadok Ashurov Krasnaiya Sloboda, Azerbaijan on July 21, 2018. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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No pickles, no shankbone, no cemetery visits: Central Asian Mountain Jews try to preserve centuries-old Passover traditions

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Jewish schools in Europe get added $2.7 million in donations to help them through coronavirus crisis

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For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, COVID-19 lockdown loneliness is debilitating

A jar of Dragon's Breath zhug produced by Jewish community members in Odessa, Ukraine. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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Hummus is becoming popular in Ukraine. Jews there opened a zhug factory to capitalize on it.

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JDC aiding Jews affected by munitions blast in Kazakhstan

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