Dor Shabashewitz
Writer, Journalist and Analyst at Freelance
Researching ethnic minority activism in Russia and Central Asia. PhD student in history at @TelAvivUni. Ex-@RFERL journalist.
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1 month ago |
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Dor Shabashewitz
Chapchar Kut, the spring festival of the Mizo people, is little known outside Northeast India where most Mizos live. Perhaps surprisingly to some, it is also celebrated in Israel. This year, my wife Ana and I had the privilege to be invited to celebrate with the Bnei Menashe community of Kiryat Arba. The Bnei Menashe are speakers of several closely related Tibeto-Burman languages who identify as descendants of a Lost Tribe of Israel.
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2 months ago |
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Dor Shabashewitz
Many Russian-speaking olim feel discriminated against by mainstream Israeli society. They complain, and rightfully so, that sabras often question their Jewishness. Rumor has it that many of them bribed Soviet officials to get fake certificates of Jewish ancestry as it was an easy opportunity to leave their impoverished homeland. Some people seem to think that all Rusim eat pork, celebrate Christmas and say antisemitic things behind closed doors.
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2 months ago |
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Dor Shabashewitz
Atyrau, a majority-Muslim Kazakh city in a Central Asian desert known for its history of Cossack rebellions, doesn’t sound like a very Jewish place. But in fact, it has had a Jewish presence for centuries. Notable Jews born in Atyrau include movie director Timur Bekmambetov, tech entrepreneur Arkady Volozh, Chabad rabbi Shimshon Romanovski and journalist Irina Pruss, who happens to be my beloved grandmother.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
besacenter.org | Dor Shabashewitz
PSCRP-BESA Reports No 115 (February 20, 2025)by Dor ShabashewitzSecessionist movements have existed in Russia for as long as the Russian Federation itself. After the end of several heated conflicts in the 1990s and early 2000s, Moscow dismissed independence demands as inherently unserious, bordering on political role-playing.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
eurasiareview.com | Dor Shabashewitz
Bahruz Samadov, a 28-year-old researcher, journalist and peace activist, was detained by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service on August 21. Samadov lived in the Czech Republic, where he studied political science as a PhD candidate. According to his acquaintance Altay Göyüşov, he returned to Baku about a month ago to visit his elderly grandmother. Little is known about Samadov’s case from official sources besides the fact that he was detained for and subsequently charged with treason.
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I’m looking for a job. Most of my experience so far has been in journalism, policy analysis, fieldwork and occasionally teaching – all at the intersection of anthro, history and area studies but it can be sth else. Hit me up if you know of a cool org hiring remotely or in Israel!
RT @maksymeristavi: partitioned, disarmed and decolonized russia is the only peace plan that will ever work. if you think this is too radic…
I’m not a fan of Zoya Cherkassky and I dislike the message of this drawing for obscure identity politics reasons. Still gotta say the quote tweets are insane because no one outside of Israel understands the context. It’s not Ashkenazim vs Mizrahim, it’s Rusim vs Tzabarim.
israel's "premier" artist. fascinating https://t.co/kkVgwMSBZX
