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Palestinian Envoy Ignores the Plight of Ukraine at the UN Human Rights Council
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) opened its 49th session on Monday in Geneva, where it was decided to hold an urgent debate on Ukraine. Many...
Ukraine: Lessons Not Being Learned
Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine -- and the international condemnation it generated-- contains key lessons for policymakers. They are lessons that should have been...
How We Got to Putin’s War — and What We Must Do in Response
With the brazen Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is important to try to understand how this happened and how to respond. This act of war didn’t...
JDC Launches Emergency Campaign to Assist Humanitarian Needs to Ukrainian Jewry
JNS.org - In response to the invasion of Ukraine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has launched an emergency campaign to respond to spiking...
Ukrainian Rabbi: We Will Ensure All Those Who Want to Make Aliyah Can
JNS.org - “After a tense Shabbat, tonight was relatively quiet, and I hope this is a sign of things to come, despite the fact that...
Fellowship Sends $1 Million in Aid to Ukrainian Jewry
JNS.org - The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has announced a $1 million emergency aid package for the Jewish community of Ukraine, it said...
Israeli Ministries Meet to Plan Possible Airlift of Ukrainian Jews if Russia Attacks
JNS.org - Top Israeli government officials and leaders of Jewish organizations held a meeting on Sunday to discuss the possibility of evacuating Jews from Ukraine...
Jews Want ‘Decisive Action’ From Police After Violent Assault on Teens in Ukraine Pilgrimage City
Two Jewish teenagers were assaulted last weekend in the central Ukrainian city of Uman. The incident took place on Saturday night near the tomb of Rabbi...
Ukraine and Belarus Argue Over Hasidic Jewish Pilgrims Stranded at Border
Ukraine accused Belarus on Wednesday of trying to escalate a row over 2,000 Hasidic Jewish pilgrims stranded at a border crossing after Ukrainian border guards...
Hasidic Jewish Pilgrims Block Ukraine Border When Barred Entry
Hundreds of Hasidic Jews who set off on a pilgrimage to Ukraine despite coronavirus restrictions blocked the frontier on Tuesday after border guards would not...
Antisemitic Hate Crimes Thrive in Ukraine
Just before the last day of Passover, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch died in Israel. The well-known Chabad rabbi was injured in a brutal attack in October 2016 in Zhitomir,...
Rising Tensions in Ukraine Prompt Hundreds of Jews to Consider Immigration to Israel
JNS.org - The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, or The Fellowship, said that in the last two weeks they have been flooded with hundreds of calls...
Ukrainian Hotel Has Policy of Turning Away Jews, Community Leader Reveals
JNS.org - A hotel in Uman, Ukraine, has a policy that refuses to rent rooms out to Jews, revealed Eduard Dolinsky, director of the Ukrainian Jewish...
Ukraine Parliament Appoints First Jewish Prime Minister
JNS.org -The Ukrainian Parliament confirmed the appointment of the Jewish former mayor of the town of Vinnytsia as the country’s new prime minister, following the resignation...
