A familiar accent goes a long way for refugees who have found it hard to communicate with Israeli, American and other non-Russian-speaking volunteers. CHISINAU, Moldova ( JTA ) — MacBook under his arm and sporting the latest AirPods, Shimshon Izakson looked as if — with a change of outfit — he could have just stepped out of a hipster cafe in a trendy neighborhood of Moscow or Bucharest. But he was in a Jewish center’s sports hall in downtown Chisinau, helping Jewish refugees in Moldova from Nikolayev, a strategic port city on the road between Crimea and Odessa that has...
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