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Ex-Moscow chief rabbi calls on Jews to leave Russia immediately – Guardian
Jews must leave Russia before they become scapegoats for the hardships caused by the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, the former chief rabbi in Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt told the Guardian. Goldschmidt believes that Jews living in the...
Moscow seeks to use Babyn Yar against Ukrainians; Ukrainians want a memorial...
There are two competing projects for a memorial at Babyn Yar also known as Babi Yar, the site of a mass murder of Jews and others during the Nazi occupation. One of these projects, the Russian, is heavily funded by Kremlin allies and seeks...
2021/07/07 - 04:20 • International
Israel and Ukraine will always be friends, Israeli Ambassador says
When Ukrainians will be able to go to Israel Recently Ukrainian media published controversial news regarding Israel opening its borders to Ukrainians. However, Mr. Ambassador highlighted – there has been a misunderstanding....
2021/04/03 - 18:25 • Culture of Ukraine, Opinion
Putin's "Trojan horse" in Ukraine — Babyn Yar and Holocaust memorialization
The Russian project is indeed a "Trojan horse", as Yost Zissels, a Ukrainian dissident of Jewish origin and president of the Association of Jewish Public Organizations and Communities of Ukraine, named it. "This...
2020/01/29 - 11:36 • History of Ukraine, International
False accusations of antisemitism haunt Ukraine as Putin pushes his narrative at...
Respected Anti-Defamation League and its survey on antisemitism: what's wrong This season's first accusation of Ukraine's purported antisemitism came from an unexpected place – the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),...
2019/10/02 - 04:09 • Featured, History of Ukraine, World War II
Jewish survivors of Babi Yar Holocaust massacre recall events, reconstruct exact shooting...
"We still do not know what they did to the Jews. Terrifying rumors are heard from the Lukianivske cemetery. But they still cannot be trusted. They say that the Jews are being shot. Those escorting them to the point where they were...
2018/05/11 - 00:51 • More
Ukrainian Jewish Association slams US Congressmen letter on purported antisemitism in Ukraine,...
Statement of the Presidium of the Vaad of Ukraine in Response to the Letter of US Congressmen Concerning Anti-Semitism in Poland and Ukraine US Democratic Party Congressman Ro Khanna has recently published a letter dated April 23 on...
2016/09/23 - 11:44 • More, Ukraine
Like other Ukrainians, Jews are proud of their country and back resistance...
At the conclusion of the Yalta Jewish Strategy meeting, Yaakov Dov Bleich, the chief rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine, tells the Apostrophe portal that the Jews of Ukraine are proud of what their country has achieved since the Maidan and fully...
2015/04/15 - 09:07 • History of Ukraine
April 15th, 2015 is known in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) or a "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day". It is observed as a day of commemoration for the...
Experts: Ukrainians and Jews defend Ukraine from the aggressor together
Journalist and member of the Dnipropetrovsk oblast Jewish organizations Oleh Rostovtsev began his day with a visit to the city donor center. Like hundreds of other volunteers, he donates blood for Ukrainian fighters who are at war in the...