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UJE Board Member Mark Freiman appointed to the Order of Ontario

Posted On: March 31st, 2020

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 Israel

Posted 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.com

Posted On: November 26th, 2019

Posted In: Anti-Semitism

Jerusalem Post: How to save the mass graves of the Holocaust from oblivion

Source: jpost.com

Posted 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.com

Posted 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.

Magocsi: Anti-Semitism in Ukraine?

Posted On: November 4th, 2019

Posted In: Anti-Semitism

[Editor’s note: The following is an updated version of an opinion piece by UJE Board Member Paul Robert Magocsi that originally appeared in The New Pathway on September 12, 2019 and The Ukrainian Weekly on…

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