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Ukraine’s military worked Tuesday to evacuate its remaining fighters from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol where three months of Russian bombing has left the besieged port city in ruins. Ukrainian officials said more than 260 fighters were evacuated Monday. Fifty-three seriously injured fighters were taken to a hospital in Novoazovsk, east of Mariupol, Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar said. Novoazovsk is under the control of Russian troops and Russian-backed separatists. Another 211 fighters were taken to the town of Olenivka, an area also controlled by Russian-backed separatists, Malyar said, adding that the evacuees would be subject to a...

On Sunday evening, 300 leading members of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, took part in a grand dinner organized by Chabad. Local shliach Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel held his audience spellbound as he related what his grandfather’s reaction was when he first took on his shlichus: “At first, my grandfather asked me, ‘How can you possibly go back to the place where all my family was murdered?’ Then, after a few moments of reflection, he observed: ‘Actually, this is the greatest revenge you could possibly have upon the Nazis. Go there in peace, and I hope you will be very...