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Israel acknowledges level of anti-Semitism in Ukraine is falling

Posted On: March 4th, 2019

Posted In: Anti-Semitism

On 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, official Israeli agencies always publish a report on manifestations of anti-Semitism throughout the world for the previous year. The main trends are then presented at a traditional, special…

Anti-Semitism in Ukraine in 2018: loud statements, minor incidents

Posted On: March 4th, 2019

Posted In: Anti-Semitism

The topic of anti-Semitism in Ukraine last year assuredly occupied an important place in the international Jewish agenda. The issue was discussed and condemned, denied and explained. It has caused concern among American politicians and…

London experts debate state of Ukrainian, Jewish relations today

Source: Kyiv Post

Posted On: February 7th, 2019

Posted In: UJE in the News

LONDON – Debating on the degree of anti-Semitism in modern Ukraine and the role of Jews in it three top experts from Toronto and Ukraine clashed in their views when they spoke up to the crowd in the Jewish Community Center in London on Jan. 29.

Poroshenko in Israel: free trade, friendship, and memory

Posted On: January 28th, 2019

Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko once again flew to Israel on 20-21 January 2019. This was his third visit to the Jewish state, three years and a month after his first visit in December 2015, and…

A landmark conversation in London on Jews and Ukraine

Posted On: January 21st, 2019

Posted In: Press Releases

Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity of 2013-14, Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and the continuing war in Eastern Ukraine has triggered an intense public search for Ukrainian identity. The Jewish community of Ukraine, too, has embraced a…

Canadian lawyer fights to restore Ukrainian mass grave

Source: The Canadian Jewish News

Posted On: January 17th, 2019

Posted In: UJE in the News

Lawyers who scale back their practice at the end of their careers might do some consulting, teaching, mediation or just kick back. Mark Freiman, who has left his Toronto law firm after eight years, is devoting himself to a mass grave in Ukraine.

Happy holidays

Posted On: December 21st, 2018

Posted In: Other UJE-Related News

To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 14 January 2019.

Book Review: Memories of Buczacz — Jewish History from the bottom up

Source: The Arts Fuse

Posted On: December 20th, 2018

Posted In: Book Reviews

These extraordinary books from world-class writers are about reviving, through words, a now-derelict town and the lives of its ten thousand murdered Jews.

Ukrainian youth and townsfolk band together to restore neglected Jewish cemetery

Source: Times of Israel

Posted On: December 4th, 2018

Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

KALUSH, Ukraine — It was an unlikely group of more than 100 people who came to clean up the Jewish cemetery in the western Ukrainian town of Kalush in mid-October.

‘Hunger For Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story’ makes its English-language debut in Kyiv on Nov. 26

Source: Kyiv Post

Posted On: December 2nd, 2018

Posted In: UJE in the News

More than 200 people attended an invitation-only screening of the 2017 documentary “Hunger For Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story” at Oskar Kino Theater in Kyiv’s Gulliver Shopping Center on Nov. 26.

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