«We are extremely proud of the outcome of inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum», — Boris Lozhkin

More than 500 leaders from Israel, the United States, Europe and Ukraine participated in the inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum, organised by the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU) on 5-7 May, 2019. The success of the event, the first international Jewish-interest conference in Ukraine, illustrates the renaissance of the Ukrainian Jewish community and its role in the global Jewry.

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Unveiling of a multilingual plaque honouring Dr. Raphael Lemkin

On Thursday, 20 September 2018, the Ukrainian Institute of America and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation will be unveiling a multilingual plaque (English, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Yiddish) honouring Dr. Raphael Lemkin, the “father of the UN Genocide Convention,” specifically in reference to the speech he gave in New York City (20 September 1953) acknowledging the famine of 1932-33 as a Soviet genocide.

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