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    JP: Jewish soldier found dead in snow in eastern Ukraine

    Posted On: February 22nd, 2015
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    A Jewish soldier was buried in Kiev on Friday after his body was discovered in the snow in Donetsk where it had been hidden for almost a month.

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    JP: Chief Rabbi calls on separatists to cease fighting as Ukrainian Jewish center hit by rockets

    Posted On: February 11th, 2015
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    A building housing a Jewish social welfare center in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, was hit by rockets on Tuesday during a barrage that killed at least seven people in the government- held city.

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    JewishNews: Aaron Kaganovsky: The community in Mariupol is in turmoil, and we are trying to persuade everyone who is willing to leave

    Posted On: January 27th, 2015
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    The assistant to the chief rabbi of Mariupol told Jewishnews.com.ua about the situation in the city and the community’s reaction to the tragedy that took place on Saturday.

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    JP: Ukrainian Jews look to evacuate city as Jewish woman reportedly killed by shelling

    Posted On: January 27th, 2015
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    Jewish leaders in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol are urging their constituents to flee as casualties mount amid shelling by Russian- backed separatists.

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    Chabad.org: Refugees Themselves, East Ukraine Chabad Emissaries Strive On

    Posted On: January 16th, 2015
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    The fighting was heavy when Maya and her family fled this summer from Lugansk, Ukraine. When she recently returned after three months in Moscow, her pantry was empty.

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    Chabad.org: Scattered Among States, Donetsk Jewish Community Inches Into 2015

    Posted On: January 12th, 2015
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    For the first time in two decades, no public Chanukah celebration took place this year in the center of Donetsk, Ukraine.

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    JP: Looking to create a Jewish defense force in eastern Ukraine

    Posted On: December 29th, 2014
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    The Latvian-Israeli activist who helped found a Jewish self-defense force in Kiev following last year’s revolution is looking to create a similar organization in the port city of Mariupol, just kilometers behind the front lines of Ukraine’s civil war, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

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    Washington Post: Fleeing their country’s civil war, Ukrainian Jews head for Israel

    Posted On: December 26th, 2014
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie, don’t look like a typical refugee family. All well dressed — even the Chihuahua, Micky, wearing a chic dog jacket — they might not seem out of place mingling with Kiev’s oligarchs.

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    JP: ‘Civic obligation’ to defend Ukraine, says hassid

    Posted On: December 24th, 2014
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    Aside from his long gray beard, the soldier pictured in front of a tank, holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing heavy camouflage body armor appears indistinguishable from any of his compatriots.

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    JNS: JDC expands winter relief for Ukrainian Jews

    Posted On: December 19th, 2014
    Posted In: Jewish Life in Ukraine

    The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), which has been delivering heating fuel, bedding, and clothing to Jewish communities across the former Soviet Union as part of its annual Winter Relief program, is expanding its efforts in Ukraine in response to a harsh winter as well as the country’s ongoing political and economic turmoil.

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    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.

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    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."

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