Nash Holos: Purim
Purim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient victory recounted in the Book of Esther. This story had eerie parallels in Europe during the bloody 20th century. About twenty five hundred years...
Purim is a holiday Jews observe in memory of an ancient victory recounted in the Book of Esther. This story had eerie parallels in Europe during the bloody 20th century. About twenty five hundred years...
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...
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...
The Kharkiv branch of the Zionist youth organization "Ha-Shomer Ha-Tsair" shot the short film So. Dom. Bass. The movie was screened at a festival of Jewish short cinema in Minsk, Belarus on December 13-14, 2014....
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...
The renowned Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych was featured in the inaugural Hromadske (Public) Radio broadcast of “Encounters,” a new program devoted to Ukrainian-Jewish relations. Yuri Andrukhovych is currently working on Eight Former Synagogues, or Labels...
TORONTO – As fighting continues in Ukraine’s eastern regions, Israeli photographer Alexander Sherbakov is waging his own truth campaign. After spending over two months months on Kyiv’s Maidan earlier this year, Sherbakov is sharing his...
Radio Liberty has been running a series of interviews entitled “Bohemians at the Barricades” where leading Kyiv cultural figures discuss the context of their participation in the events of the Maidan. Artists, writers, and art...
Borscht, one of the favorite dishes of both athletes and spectators at the Olympic Games, is not actually Russian in origin. The soup, made bright red by its base of beets, is Ukrainian (and the...