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Roald Hoffman: "Fight for democracy. If you can do it in your own country, it will be an example for others, a beacon for a world where culture will not be destroyed."

Posted On: May 19th, 2022

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Roald Hoffman, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (1981) and UJE Advisory Board member was interviewed by the Western Research Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Sciences of...

Yaroslav Hrytsak: Ukraine will become a new Central European tiger

Posted On: May 16th, 2022

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Originally published in Ukrainian @pravda.com.ua Sunday, 1 March 2022 "I would like to live in a boring country," said Yaroslav Hrytsak, one of Ukraine's best-known historians, to conclude the first part of the conversation. This...

The Ukrainian elite

Posted On: May 3rd, 2022

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Sunday, 10 April 2022 Originally appeared in Ukrainian @pravda.com.ua We looked high and low for the Ukrainian elite, the whole time nodding in frustration at MPs, oligarchs, or media personalities, but it turned out that...

I'm a Holocaust historian and I'm taking up arms to defend Ukraine

Posted On: February 28th, 2022

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I am an academic at a Kharkiv university, an officer in the reserves and a historian of the Holocaust. And facing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Putin's attack on my home, I’m learning what patriotism really...

The 'Ten Plagues' Facing Israel if Russia Invades Ukraine

Posted On: February 14th, 2022

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3,000 kilometers separate Jerusalem and Kyiv. And that distance is probably why most Israelis don’t know how much their normal everyday life is already connected to Ukraine, or how much of what they take for...

How the Russia–Ukraine crisis is playing out thousands of miles away, in Israel

Source: Haaretz

Posted On: February 9th, 2022

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Born in Ukraine, Anna Zharova moved to Israel 22 years ago. Like many new immigrants, she focused on learning Hebrew, making new friends and integrating into Israeli society — and naturally lost interest in what was happening in her country of birth.

That all changed eight years ago when Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, sparking the most serious East-West crisis since the Cold War.

"When that happened, I said: I can no longer stand on the side," recounts the 41-year-old, "and I have remained active ever since."

At Babi Yar, top Ukrainian Rabbi urges Putin not to invade

Posted On: January 28th, 2022

"We need to remove all our ambitions, and do everything to prevent war. I beg you", Rabbi Moshe Azman says, addressing the Russian president One of Ukraine’s most prominent Jewish leaders stood in the snow...

Why this young American Jew supports Ukraine

Posted On: January 24th, 2022

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Jeremy Borovitz, the son of a New Jersey rabbi, is a young American Jew who once worked in Ukraine, where he created a special video in the Ukrainian language as a sign of solidarity with...

Tablet Magazine: To Ukraine with love

Source: Tablet Magazine

Posted On: November 15th, 2021

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As the daughter of Soviet Jewish immigrants, I used to call myself ‘Russian’—but a trip to Kyiv offered me a new perspective, and a new language

It was our last day in Kyiv. Soon I would return to the life I had always known in New York before moving to Ukraine three months prior — but on that day, rather than seek respite from the smoldering heat, my partner and I were in the Jewish section of the city's municipal cemetery, navigating a small jungle of poison ivy in a last-ditch effort to find my great-grandparents' graves.

Marko Robert Stech: Cultured nation knows the cultures of its minorities

Posted On: October 1st, 2021

Posted In: ‘Encounter’ Literary Prize, UJE Initiatives, Literature, Culture

[Editor's note: "Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize" ™ was inaugurated in 2020 with the goal of building on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in the written word. The prize...

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