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A Ukrainian Israeli businessman banned last week from entering Ukraine accused the former Soviet republic of trying to control Ukraine’s Jewish community. In a news conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Vadim Rabinovich, one of the leaders of the 500,000-strong Jewish community of Ukraine, also charged that Ukraine’s State Security was behind a newly created […]

July 2, 1999
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A Ukrainian Israeli businessman banned last week from entering Ukraine accused the former Soviet republic of trying to control Ukraine’s Jewish community. In a news conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Vadim Rabinovich, one of the leaders of the 500,000-strong Jewish community of Ukraine, also charged that Ukraine’s State Security was behind a newly created Jewish umbrella group that split off earlier this year from his All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress. One of the leaders of the new group, the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine, denied the charges.

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