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....
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....
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...
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...
How famous Zionist leader rebutted Putin’s anti-Ukrainian falsifications — more than a century ago By Shimon Briman Vladimir Putin launched a criminal war against Ukraine in 2022 and has continued this bloody aggression into 2024,...
On the evening of 11 October 2023, I was anxiously following the news on various channels. It was the fifth day of the war in Israel, the fifth day after the most brutal attack by...
Mr. Levy has long been a friend and champion of Ukraine. He calls Russia a terrorist state, advocates for its expulsion from the UN Security Council, and defends Ukraine's membership in NATO. On December 6,...
This is an edited, abbreviated version of my phone conversation with Evgeniya Goldman on Friday, December 1, and subsequent text messages. Her husband, Alexander Goldman, is a prisoner of war in Russian captivity. She and...
David Milman of the Brodsky Central Synagogue in Kyiv became the first official Jewish military chaplain in the history of Ukraine. The first and so far the only one in the ranks of the Armed...
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.
