Despite his affiliation with an ultra-nationalist group, parliamentarian Boryslav Bereza looks more like a sophisticated metrosexual than a hardliner.
Editor’s note: The following interview by Michael Gold with Dr. Mordekhai Yushkovsky, the Yiddish Instruction Inspector for the Ministry of Education of Israel, was published in Hadashot, the newspaper of the Association of Jewish Organizations…
At this writing, no one knows what will come of the peace initiative launched last week by François Hollande and Angela Merkel. But what everyone should know is that it represents the last chance to…
JERUSALEM – Best-selling Ukrainian writer Irena Karpa and Dmytro Tyshchenko, the author of a new Yiddish-Ukrainian dictionary, will appear at this year’s Jerusalem International Book Fair, raising the visibility of Ukraine in this important forum….
Larysa Denysenko is a renowned Ukrainian writer. In her novels she often talks about a Kyivan world that for her is impossible to imagine without the image of Jewish families. To illustrate this, the writer…
On February 4th, 2015, Jews around the world will celebrate Tu BiShvat. It falls on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat. In Jewish tradition Tu BiShvat is known as the New Year…
Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky is known as the `saviour of Jews` during World War II. Renata Hanynets explains why, in this week’s look at Ukraine’s Jewish Heritage. Audio file is here. Transcript. Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky is…
