I just returned from Ukraine where I met with some of the thousands of Jews displaced by the fighting in eastern Ukraine and with JDC colleagues and volunteers working night and day to offer critically...
An increasing number of new initiatives and events reflect growing Israeli grassroots support for Ukraine. The "Warm Gifts" project was started in early October by the Facebook group "Israel Supports Ukraine." The group posted the...
Hundreds of Israelis came out on the evening of 18 September for the “Worldwide Peace March” in support of Ukraine. Activists from the "Israel Supports Ukraine" group organized two parallel actions in Tel Aviv and...
"We are a group of Israelis with a strong civil identity. Today, Ukraine and its people are going through a terrible war that every day takes away lives of thousands of people who protect their...
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...
Despite the sudden arrival of an unwelcome guest, Israeli friends of Ukraine enthusiastically marked the Independence Day of Ukraine on August 22 in Tel Aviv’s Park ha-Yarkon. More than two hundred Israelis, together with the...
CBC producer Alex Shprintsen grew up in Ukraine. He recently returned to explore the country's past and current conflicts.
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...
Radio Liberty: Putin doesn’t want Ukraine to exist at all, but she exists and will exist – Yaakov Bleich Interview with Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich on Radio Liberty, 20 July 2014 Interviewer: Vasyl Zilhalov Source...
Babyn Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv that has become a symbol of the Holocaust. There more than 100 thousand perished during the Nazi occupation, including 40,000 Jews. Babyn Yar was first...
Ukrainians and Jews have lived as neighbours for centuries, creating and sharing enduring cultures that continue to inform their identities today. Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) is proud to present Part 1 of an integrated narrative of these two peoples in the belief that there is much to be gained by viewing their historical experience together, in all its complexity.
Since its launch in September 2022, the UJE Timeline has earned international recognition by winning eight international awards:
The 'Encounter' prize aims to build on the common experiences of Ukrainians and Jews over the centuries, expressed in literature and nonfiction. The Prize will be awarded annually to the most influential work in literature and nonfiction (in alternate years) that fosters Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, helping solidify Ukraine's place as a multi-ethnic society and giving truth to the motto, "Our stories are incomplete without each other."
The goal of the richly illustrated catalogue is to present an integrated narrative that looks at the experience of these two peoples together, in all its complexity — through periods of crisis, as well as long stretches of normal co-existence and multifaceted cultural interaction from antiquity to 1914.
