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    JTA: Planeload of Ukrainian immigrants arrives in Israel

    Posted On: December 24th, 2014
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    Some 226 immigrants from Ukraine, among then dozens of families fleeing fighting in eastern Ukraine, landed in Israel.

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    JP: Dozens of Israelis fighting in Ukraine, rebel leader claims

    Posted On: December 23rd, 2014
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    A senior leader of the Moscow- backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine revealed that he is Jewish and a former counselor in a Jewish Agency youth program, in an interview with a Russian Jewish media outlet earlier this month.

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    JP: Czech Jews protest invitation of Putin to Holocaust memorial

    Posted On: December 22nd, 2014
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    The Czech Jewish community is up in arms over its government’s decision to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to a national Holocaust commemoration being held in Prague next month, citing opposition to Moscow’s actions in neighboring Ukraine.

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    Jerusalem Post: Svoboda party unlikely to enter parliament - election exposes rift between Jewish oligarchs

    Posted On: October 30th, 2014
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    Russian propaganda describing the Ukrainian government as fascist took a hit on Monday when the far-right Svoboda party apparently failed to maintain its place in national politics by receiving less than the 5-percent threshold required to enter the legislature.

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    The Jerusalem Post on failed firebombing in Kyiv

    Posted On: October 7th, 2014
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    Ukrainian Jews have enriched their country and the actions of “stupid people or provocateurs” do not mean that all Ukrainians are antisemitic, a Ukrainian official said in response to reports to a failed firebombing of a Kiev synagogue immediately prior to Rosh Hashana.

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    Writing Competition Honors Human Rights Leader

    Posted On: October 6th, 2014
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    The Ukraine-based NGO Society Initiatives Institute has announced the first international essay contest in honor of Raphael Lemkin. Lemkin, a Polish lawyer of Jewish descent who was born in Belarus and studied in Ukraine and...

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    JTA: Giant Ukraine JCC provides shelter

    Posted On: October 4th, 2014
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    Five months into the war that turned him into a refugee in his own country, Jacob Virin has already attended 20 Jewish weddings — including those of his son and two other relatives — at the $100 million JCC of Dnepropetrovsk.

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    Anti-Jewish brochure printed in Moscow

    Posted On: September 5th, 2014
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    An anti-Jewish publication by Vladimir Matveev entitled Zionism and its role in the organization of the Euromaidan and the split of Ukraine has been published in Moscow with a print run of one thousand copies....

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    More Ukrainian Jews Making Aliyah to Israel

    Posted On: August 20th, 2014
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    Due to the increasing escalation of hostilities in Ukraine, the Jewish Agency brought to Israel last week forty Jewish children from Donetsk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, Odessa, Mykolayiv and other cities from the country’s southeast. The...

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    Repatriates from Ukraine to Israel to receive additional funding

    Posted On: August 11th, 2014
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    Israel’s immigrant absorption ministry on 3 August 2014 approved additional payments to repatriates from Ukraine. The funds to help Jews who repatriated to Israel from Ukraine in 2014 are in addition to monies already allocated...

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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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