A synagogue in the Podilskyi district in Kyiv was damaged as a result of a Russian drone strike on the night of Thursday, October 23, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Azman reported. He showed...
Early in the morning on 23 June 2025, I read a WhatsApp message from a Ukrainian TV channel producer saying that my scheduled live appearance might not happen because of breaking news reports coming in...
A Ukrainian parliamentary delegation visited Israel for the first time in many years. The delegation was led by MP Olha Vasylevska-Smahliuk (Servant of the People faction), chair of the Ukraine-Israel Parliamentary Friendship Group and one...
A new song by Kyiv rabbi Moshe Azman sounds like a direct call for US President Donald Trump to take the side of Ukraine and fight against the Forces of Darkness. The song "Donald Trump,...
Thousands of Israelis signed a petition demanding that an official Israeli delegation be prevented from attending Moscow's "victory parade" on 9 May. Public protests have elevated this issue to the level of the head of...
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...
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.
