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G.A.’s Savior Is the Russian Oligarch ‘Who Got Away’

By Gal Beckerman

In his lively introduction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the recent General Assembly in Washington, Leonid Nevzlin reminded the audience just how unexpected and unusual a role this was for him.Read More


The Life, Death and Judaica of a Russian Oligarch

By Gal Beckerman

Like everything else about his colorful life — which ended abruptly and violently in a hail of bullets on a Moscow street in early November — Shabtai von Kalmanovic’s large collection of Judaica has been both shrouded in mystery and subject to exaggeration.Read More


In Mayoral Race, N.Y. Jews Back Bloomberg

By Gal Beckerman

New York’s Jews overwhelmingly voted to re-elect Michael Bloomberg to a third term in the citywide elections for mayor on Tuesday.Read More


HIAS Still Aids Immigrants, but Most Don’t Resemble Sergey Brin

By Gal Beckerman

When Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google and now the 26th richest man in the world, left the Soviet Union as a 6-year-old Jewish refugee in 1979, it was the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society that secured American visas for him and for his family and settled everyone into a new home.Read More


Human Rights Watch Debates Its Mission With a Founding Critic

By Gal Beckerman

When Human Rights Watch’s founder took to the op-ed page of The New York Times to denounce his own organization’s record on Israel, he provided powerful validation to critics who have been stepping up their attacks on the human rights group over the past year. “I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the group’s critics,” wrote the former chairman and acknowledged father of HRW, Robert Bernstein.Read More



 

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