LVIV, Ukraine – The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, commemorated on Sunday the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by ...

Recently the holiday of Purim was celebrated by Jewish people all over the world. The origin of Purim, from the book of Esther in our Hebrew Bible, is a particular Jewish story celebrating the victory ...

A delegation of rabbis, led by three from Nassau County, traveled to Poland last week, and presented a Torah to Ukrainian Jewish refugees, bringing a message of hope to those fleeing a war torn nation ...

Ukrainian Jewish life has long been conducted in Russian. A new haggadah is a sign of how that’s changing. (JTA) — For Michal Stamova, the challenge of translating Passover’s core text into Ukrainian ...

(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their ...

(JTA) — KYIV, Ukraine — For the first time since Ukraine was plunged into war in 2022, soldiers on the front lines could hear the blast of the shofar marking the Jewish new year. The largest Jewish ...

These days, Ukraine runs on two currencies — hryvnia and metaphor. Among the most powerful is the notion of “light in the darkness,” especially urgent amidst rolling blackouts and the billowing black ...

(JTA) Yuliia Krainiakova fled her home in Kharkiv, Ukraine, after Russian troops invaded last year and made her way to Berlin, where she and her daughters settled for 10 months with the help of Jewish ...

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Ukrainians are war-weary and hopeful for peace amid reports that Ukraine agreed Tuesday to an American peace plan to end the war with Russia, but according to a senior Ukrainian Jewish community ...

Jewish leaders have pressed for a reckoning in Philadelphia, but their counterparts in Detroit aren’t taking the same approach. (JTA) – Over the past few weeks, tributes to Ukrainian Nazi ...

Vadim Vishnevsky, a prominent member of the Jewish community of Kharkiv in Ukraine, died of a gunshot wound to the head. Vishnevsky was rushed to hospital on Nov. 20 from his office, the Ukrainian ...