Joel S.

This is a pogrom, no different than what the Cossacks did to Jewish communities in the Pale of Settlement.

"One is almost tempted to measure the degree of totalitarian infection by the extent to which the concerned governments use their sovereign right of denationalization." - Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

He's probably doing it because he authentically wants Putin to win. The war between Putin and Ukraine is a proxy war between the forces of nationalist far-right reaction and those against it. Which is why the anti-Ukraine left is so deeply misguided.

I don’t love the idea of the government telling Jewish delis they can’t call themselves “Jewish” if they aren’t strictly kosher, when most American Jews don’t keep kashrut. Jewish identity is not for the state to define. www.inquirer.com/food/restaur...