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...
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...
Israel Defense Forces' Sergeant Alexey (Asher) Neykov is a hero who saved dozens of children's lives when Arab terrorists attacked a school bus. He received the highest posthumous award in his home city of Kharkiv,...
The Mark Azbel Prize has been inaugurated in Israel to support young theoretical physicists at Kharkiv National University. Mark Azbel (1932–2020) was an outstanding physicist and dissident. He graduated from Kharkiv University and organized scientists...
Ihor Solovei is the director of the Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security. Ukraine's government authorizes this office to protect the country on the fronts of the information war, which has been waged by...
The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KMIS) has presented the findings of a new survey. In the Israel-Hamas war, the preponderant majority of Ukrainians — 69 percent — sympathizes with Israel. Only 1 percent sympathizes...
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...
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.
