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.
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....
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...
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...
The Jewish governor of a large Ukrainian city has promised to return a former mosque to the hands of the Muslim community.
Haaretz correspondent Judy Maltz was a recipient of the 2014 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism Recognizing Excellence in Diaspora Reportage on Sunday. Keynote speaker Economy Minister Naftali Bennett acknowledged that the typical Israeli pays little attention to the Diaspora, praising B’nai B’rith’s efforts to change this.
An organization representing Russian-speaking Jews has cut funding for its Kiev office because of its criticism of Russia’s actions in Ukraine. The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, or EAJC, in February stopped funding its Kiev office, which is run by Josef Zissels, he told JTA on Thursday.
The Israeli tourist site Masa Acher (A Different Journey) has issued a guide to Ukraine in Hebrew. Currently, it provides only basic, but important, information about the country. A more expansive version is still to...
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.
