On February 3, Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, issued an unusual apology. Two weeks prior, Israel had hosted the Fifth World Holocaust Forum, a gathering of world leaders to remember the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism. At the event, Yad Vashem had screened several videos that it said it now regretted showing. These videos contained “inaccuracies,” Yad Vashem said in a statement, and a “partial presentation of facts” that created an “unbalanced impression.”
UJE Board Member Mark Freiman appointed to the Order of Ontario
Posted On: March 31st, 2020
Posted In: Other UJE-Related News UJE board member Mark Freiman has been appointed to the Order of Ontario, the highest honor bestowed on civilians by this Canadian province. Instituted in 1986, the order is intended to honor any current or…
A difficult maneuver between politics and memory: The President of Ukraine at the Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem
Posted On: January 28th, 2020
Posted In: Holocaust Remembrance Ukraine could well have been lost among the four dozen countries at the global forum in Jerusalem dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. In addition, there was a…
A serious man: Zelensky bids to address Ukraine’s dark past, brighten its future
Source: Times of IsraelPosted On: January 20th, 2020
Posted In: Ukraine-Israel Relations Ahead of this week’s visit to Israel, comedian who became a corruption-battling president discusses everything from Babi Yar, the Holocaust and the Holodomor, to Putin… and Trump.
Happy holidays
Posted On: December 24th, 2019
Posted In: Other UJE-Related News To friends and readers around the world, we wish you a very happy holiday season and a wonderful new year. May you always be inspired. We will return to this space on 15 January 2020.
UJE announces the ‘Encounter’ literary prize
Posted On: December 20th, 2019
Posted In: Press Releases Press Release Toronto/Lviv/Kyiv 20 December 2019 The Ukrainian Jewish Encounter is proud to announce “Encounter: The Ukrainian-Jewish Literary Prize.” The prize is dedicated to works of fiction and non-fiction that explore, in whole or in…
“With the help of Ukrainians, I realized my national existence as a Jew”
Posted On: November 28th, 2019
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish Relations Mikhail Heifets, a great friend of Ukrainian-Jewish understanding, is no longer with us Mikhail Heifets, the renowned Soviet human rights activist, dissident, historian, and writer, died at the age of 85 on the evening of…
Jerusalem Post Audio: Antisemitism in Ukraine?
Source: jpost.comPosted On: November 26th, 2019
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Jerusalem Post: How to save the mass graves of the Holocaust from oblivion
Source: jpost.comPosted On: November 8th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News, Holocaust Remembrance The Valley of the Communities at Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial, is perched high atop Mount Herzl, surrounded by pine trees and silence.
Jerusalem Post: Antisemitism in Ukraine?
Source: jpost.comPosted On: November 8th, 2019
Posted In: UJE in the News, Anti-Semitism Within the last 450 years of the major Jewish presence in Ukraine, only 16 to 20 at most were marked by periods of violence.