In the very heart of Jerusalem — near the Western Wall — a Prayer for Ukraine took place on 22 February 2026. Embassy diplomats, together with Ukrainian Jews and friends of Ukraine, unfurled a thirty-meter...
English transcript for video below Originally appeared in Ukrainian @suspilne.media On 28 January 2026, the traveling exhibition "A Journey Through the Ukrainian-Jewish Encounter: From Antiquity to 1939," comprised of 20 information panels, opened in the...
Yevgenia Besfamilnaya survived the Nazis. She did not survive Russia's war. Russia's relentless assault on Kyiv's energy grid has killed yet another Ukrainian Holocaust survivor. On 13 January, plumbers found Yevgenia Mikhailovna Besfamilnaya—"Baba Zhenya" to...
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a genocidal war against Ukraine. Ukrainians of all faiths and backgrounds are clear about the challenges they face in this devastating fourth year of war, but they understand what...
Amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, whose end remains out of sight—and as part of the country’s broader shift from Russian to Ukrainian—an unprecedented project has just been completed: the full translation of...
Limmud Ukraine has returned to its home base in the Western city of Lviv for the first time since Russia’s invasion of the country in early 2022. Despite the war, more than 250 participants from...
The Ukrainian delegation at the 39th World Zionist Congress initiated the adoption of a statement in support of Ukraine. Signatures of representatives from Jewish communities worldwide are currently being collected for this pro-Ukrainian declaration. The...
Michael Brodsky, Israel's Ambassador to Ukraine, repatriated with his family from the Soviet Union in 1990. He graduated from Tel Aviv University and began his diplomatic career in 2002. In 2021, he was appointed to...
On the night of 23 October 2025, Russian kamikaze drones struck the Podil district of Kyiv, damaging the walls and interior of the historic synagogue on Shchekavytska Street. The synagogue was damaged by Russian invaders...
A synagogue in the Podilskyi district in Kyiv was damaged as a result of a Russian drone strike on the night of Thursday, October 23, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Azman reported. He showed...
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.
