Hannukah this year begins on December 16 and will last until December 24. Listen to Nash Holos host Paulette MacQuarrie report about this holiday… Hanukkah is a joyous holiday, celebrated every year by Jews around…
Vladimir Putin’s attempts to court European support has landed him in the same folds as far right Europeans, who generally viewed as controversial figures in their home countries, said Bernard Henri Lévy, a French intellectual…
Victor Pinchuk, businessman, philanthropist, and founder of the Yalta European Strategy, received the Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Award for 2014. The award, conferred by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, was presented…
As in past years, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter managed a well-attended information booth and sponsored a musical event with Ukrainian/Jewish content at the Ashkenaz Festival. This year the exuberant Lemon Bucket Orkestra was featured in…
Robert Paul Magocsi is a renowned historian and a researcher of the history of Ukraine. He brings a particular point of view in his attention to the multi-nationalism of Ukrainian lands. Professor Magocsi described for…
The candidacy of [Ukrainian Greek Catholic, ed.] Metropolitan Alexander Sheptytsky has been repeatedly discussed by the Yad Vashem commission but was dismissed each time because the Metropolitan welcomed the entry of the Nazi army in…
The four-day “Ukraine Limmud” conference opened in Lviv on November 6th. Israeli ambassador Eliab Byelotserkovski presented the following remarks during this event: “I am very proud that I represent the country of Israel in Ukraine…
