Some 950 people are expected to gather over this weekend for Limmud FSU Ukraine, the biggest event geared towards the Jewish community in the country. The event will take place in Odessa, one of the most important cities of Jewish and Zionist movement’s history in the former Soviet Union. Today there are about 400,000 Jews living in Ukraine, with more than 45,000 in Odessa.
Ukrainian-Jewish relations after Maidan
Source: Hromadske International In much of the global Jewish community, Ukraine is often stereotyped as a country of pogromists and antisemites. To some Ukrainians, Jews were responsible for communism. But the Odessa Review, a Ukrainian,...