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Podcast: Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Episode: 84: Len Khodorkovsky: from Ukrainian refugee to the US State Department, an American story
Description: Len Khodorkovsky is an American story.The same one repeated throughout generations of Jewish history.And his comes from today’s Ukraine where in 1981, young Len and his refusenik parents and grandparents fled the Soviet Union for the USA. Because by 2017, Len took an oath of office in the US State Department.“That’s quite a trajectory”, he says with considerable understatement.The poignancy is there’s bound to be another Len, barely a teenager trying to escape Ukraine (and even Russia) as we listen - destination unknown - just heading west. Len...