Torah translated into Ukrainian for the first time

Amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, whose end remains out of sight—and as part of the country’s broader shift from Russian to Ukrainian—an unprecedented project has just been completed: the full translation of the Five Books of Moses into Ukrainian.

Hundreds of copies have already been printed in honor of Simchat Torah and distributed to major Jewish communities across the country. Thousands more are on their way to towns and cities throughout Ukraine ahead of the upcoming Shabbat Bereshit, when Jews begin reading the Torah anew from the Book of Genesis.

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