A memorial service was held at Kyiv Brodsky Synagogue on 12 September to honor the life of Matisyahu (Moty) Samborskyi, the adopted son of prominent Ukrainian rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman. In an emotional ceremony attended...
The morning explosion of a Russian missile in the center of Lviv on Brativ Mikhnovskykh Street (photo left) on 4 September destroyed the window frames of the Beis Aharon V'Yisrael Synagogue located on this street....
In the years before Vladimir Putin's invasion, Ukraine's post-Soviet leaders sought a balancing act between Russia and the West. By Arthur Herman June 21, 2024 Since 1991, Ukraine has experienced periods of hopefulness and even...
This awards season, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter's Timeline (UJE Timeline) won eight international web awards, recognizing the website in various subjects, including excellence in communication, navigation, structure, and aesthetics. The UJE Timeline explores Jewish history...
Israel Defense Forces' Sergeant Alexey (Asher) Neykov is a hero who saved dozens of children's lives when Arab terrorists attacked a school bus. He received the highest posthumous award in his home city of Kharkiv,...
French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy speaks with Ukrainian journalist Sergiy Sydorenko of European Pravda about the decision of his country's president, Emmanuel Macron, to lift limits for France on backing Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war....
The Mark Azbel Prize has been inaugurated in Israel to support young theoretical physicists at Kharkiv National University. Mark Azbel (1932–2020) was an outstanding physicist and dissident. He graduated from Kharkiv University and organized scientists...
On the night I arrived in Kyiv (Tuesday, January 23), the film Golda, dubbed in Ukrainian, premiered in the city’s main conference center near Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). The by-invitation-only screening was organized by the...
Ihor Solovei is the director of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security. Ukraine's government authorizes this office to protect the country on the fronts of the information war, which has been waged by...
Many American Jews are convinced that Ukrainians are extremely antisemitic, based on what they heard from their grandparents about pogroms and Ukrainian collaborators with the Nazis. It continually amazes me that people draw firm conclusions...
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.
