Turkish-Israel Normalization Is Good News for the U.S.
And bad news for Iran.
August 30, 2022
During World War II, nearly 40,000 Jews found their way to Bishkek.
At the beginning of World War II, many thousands of Jews living in the western parts of the Soviet Unions—especially in the areas newly annexed from Poland and the Baltic states—found themselves exiled to Siberia or Central Asia. Thousands more fled or migrated to these areas voluntarily. In either case, they turned out to be fortunate, given the fate of their brethren who remained in the path of the Wehrmacht. Levi Bridges explores the traces of those Jews who found their way to Kyrgyzstan, a small, Muslim-majority former Soviet Socialist Republic nestled between Kazakhstan and China’s Xinjiang province. (Audio, 6 minutes.)
And bad news for Iran.
A growing sense of chaos.
Western governments refuse to accept what they already know.
A New York court tramples on YU’s First Amendment autonomy as a religious institution.
During World War II, nearly 40,000 Jews found their way to Bishkek.
At the beginning of World War II, many thousands of Jews living in the western parts of the Soviet Unions—especially in the areas newly annexed from Poland and the Baltic states—found themselves exiled to Siberia or Central Asia. Thousands more fled or migrated to these areas voluntarily. In either case, they turned out to be fortunate, given the fate of their brethren who remained in the path of the Wehrmacht. Levi Bridges explores the traces of those Jews who found their way to Kyrgyzstan, a small, Muslim-majority former Soviet Socialist Republic nestled between Kazakhstan and China’s Xinjiang province. (Audio, 6 minutes.)
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