To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. Stay healthy and safe. We will return to this space on 18 January 2021.

Hryhorii Arshynov, a force for the preservation of Ukraine’s Jewish heritage, an engineer, a builder, a businessman, philanthropist, and deputy of the Ostroh City Council in Volyn, has died. Hryhorii Arshynov contracted the coronavirus on…

UJE board member Mark Freiman has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the highest honor bestowed on civilians by this Canadian province. Instituted in 1986, the order is intended to honor any current or…

To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 15 January 2020.

To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 14 January 2019.

Providentially, UJE Board Member Berel Rodal and UJE Co-Director Alti Rodal participated in a ceremony on July 27, 2018 inaugurating a monument dedicated to the Jews murdered during the Holocaust in Velyki Mezhyrichi, a village…

Upon invitation from the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, Toronto’s Ukrainian and Jewish communities had an opportunity to visit with Josef Zissels on his return visit to the city on 27-29 April 2017.  Zissels, a former Soviet…

At a recent meeting of the Ukrainian Jewish Dialogue of Montreal (UJDM), members recalled a moment when Dr. Victor Goldbloom glanced around the table at which we were all comfortably dining and quietly asked, “What…

The international conference “Recent Problems in Ukrainian Studies” held in Vienna from 11-13 June 2015 attracted leading experts in the field from many European states, the United States, and Israel. Several papers were dedicated to…