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...
Recently, Jews throughout the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah 5784, the Jewish New Year. Despite wartime conditions, Ukraine was the destination of tens of thousands of Hasidic pilgrims, who came to celebrate this important holiday in...
I'll start with an anecdote. An old Jew prayed at the Wailing Wall for peace between Jews and Arabs for 70 years. When asked: "What do you feel now?" — he replied: "It's like talking...
Two years of work as an ambassador in Kyiv were divided into six months of peaceful life and a year and a half of wartime. What is the difference between the experience of an ambassador...
Dame Melinda Simmons spoke with Uilleam Blacker about her extraordinary ambassadorship in Ukraine since 2019 and during the first 18 months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. The event was held on 11 September 2023 at the...
Together with the Association of International History and Political Science (AIHP) and the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC), the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter hosted a meeting with the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, Moshe Reuven Azman, in Toronto...
When war broke out in Ukraine, thousands of people sought refuge in Poland, and a small Jewish community came to their aid. Terence McKenna, a reporter for the CBC, recently saw first-hand how past experiences...
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.
