Posts Tagged: Ukraine
On State Visit, PM Netanyahu, Ukranian President Zelensky Honor Jewish Victims of Nazis at Babi Yar
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attended a memorial ceremony at Babi Yar, where thousands of Jews were massacred in 1941...
Israir Launches Tel Aviv to Odessa Route
CTech - Israeli airline Israir Airlines is launching a new route from Tel Aviv to the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the company announced last week....
Russia Will Only Respond to Military Pressure, Not Economic Measures
The question of how Russia will evolve over the next few decades is one of the most perplexing and perhaps the most central question in modern...
Israeli Tennis Player Quits Third Set of Shenzhen Open Quarter-Final Match, as Yom Kippur Falls in China
Israeli professional tennis player Dudi Sela quit in the third set of a Shenzhen Open quarter-final match on Friday, as Yom Kippur fell in China. The...
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,...
Efforts Underway to Protect Mass Jewish Graves in Ukraine From Robbers Seeking Gold Fillings, Skulls to Peddle in City Markets
More than seven decades after the Holocaust ended, as grave-robbers continue to desecrate mass burial sites of Jews in Ukraine to uncover gold fillings, jewelry and...
Facebook Suspends Account of Ukrainian Jewish Leader After He Posts Details of Country’s Holocaust Collaboration
JNS.org -- A prominent Jewish figure in Kiev found his Facebook account suspended after his post detailing Ukrainian collaboration in the Holocaust was flagged as a violation...
Report: Four Suspects Arrested in Beating, Robbery of Chabad Rabbi at Ukrainian Train Station
Four suspects in the beating and robbery of a rabbi at a train station in Ukraine earlier this month have been arrested, the Lubavitch community news site...
Rabbi Attacked in Ukraine Airlifted to Israel in ‘Serious But Stable’ Condition
The Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who was recently found badly beaten in the central train station of a Ukrainian town was airlifted Friday to an Israeli hospital for...
Chabad Rabbi Found Unconscious, Bleeding After Brutal Beating at Ukrainian Train Station
A Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi who serves as an emissary for the movement was brutally attacked early Friday morning at the central train station in Zhitomir, Ukraine, the Lubavitch...
Full Transcript of Bernard-Henri Lévy Address at Commemoration of Babi Yar Massacre in Kiev
Below is the full transcript of remarks delivered by Bernard-Henri Lévy, special representative of French President François Hollande, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of...
In the Ashkenazi Heartland, a Struggle Over Ruins and Jewish Memory
JNS.org - Walking through Lviv, a Ukrainian city near the Polish border whose Jewish population is a small fraction of what it once was, it’s not...
Ukraine Moving Beyond History of Antisemitism to Develop Warm Ties With Israel
Despite a long history of antisemitism, pogroms, and collaboration with the Nazis during World War II, Ukraine's relations with the Jewish state are starting to...
Controversial Ultra-Nationalist Group Joins Ukrainian Army
Dmitri Yarosh, the leader of Ukraine's ultra-nationalist "Right Sector" party was appointed as an adviser to the Ukrainian army's Chief of Staff Viktor Muzhenko, according...
