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The outcry over a song by one of Israel’s biggest stars, featuring crude caricatures of alcoholic, hypersexualized Russian-speaking immigrants, has even reached Moscow. But what it says about Israeli identity is even more revealing
Novy God, the New Year holiday celebrated by immigrants from the former Soviet Union, is casting off its stigma in Israel as second-generation Russian speakers embrace its festive trappings