Ukrainian Jews
In time for Passover, the first Ukrainian-language Haggadah goes to print
By David I. Klein — April 16, 2024
(RNS) — ‘It is a symbol of how we’ve manifested as Ukrainian Jews, that we are something different, not just Soviet Jews anymore,’ said the translator of the Passover liturgy.
On Rosh Hashana and every day, lessons from Ukraine’s Jews on resilience and hope
By Alex Weisler — September 23, 2022
(RNS) — The poetic image of our names being inscribed into the Book of Life has new resonance this year.
An American rabbi went to help Ukrainian refugees. But he hoped to find his cousins.
By Michele Chabin — April 12, 2022
(RNS) — ‘I knew that finding them would be like finding a needle in a haystack,’ said Rabbi David Wilfond.
Across US, faith groups mobilize to aid Ukrainian refugees
By Luis Andres Henao and Deepa Bharath — April 5, 2022
LOS ANGELES (AP) — In Southern California, pastors and lay individuals are stationing themselves at the Mexico border waving Ukrainian flags and offering food, water and prayer.
Ukrainian archbishop: Minority faiths at risk if Russia wins
By Peter Smith — April 1, 2022
(AP) — Groups at risk include Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox who have broken away from the patriarch of Moscow, Archbishop Borys Gudziak said.
Kyiv’s Jews, persecuted under Polish-Lithuanian, Russian, Nazi and Soviet regimes, now face the onslaught of Putin’s forces
By Victoria Khiterer — March 23, 2022
(The Conversation) — A Kyivan Jewish scholar explains the long history of Jews in Kyiv and how they thrived, despite hostilities. They were forced to flee from the city many times – but always came back.
With Ukraine, Purim’s miracle has new urgency
By Ariel Zwang — March 17, 2022
(RNS) — In the last two weeks, I have seen the work of numerous Esthers carrying on her legacy.
Ukraine’s only woman rabbi among the many Jews fleeing war
By Vanessa Gera — March 14, 2022
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — With some 200,000 Jews in Ukraine, one of the world's largest Jewish communities, it is inevitable that many Jewish people are also among those fleeing.
Ukrainian diaspora helps civilians back home escape the war
By Kirsten Grieshaber — March 4, 2022
BERLIN (AP) — 'A major part of the 50,000 Jews living in Berlin are from Ukraine,' says Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal from the Chabad community.
Kyiv shrines, memorials with powerful symbolic value at risk
By Peter Smith — March 3, 2022
(AP) — Among the sites at risk in the Ukrainian capital are the nation's most sacred Orthodox shrines, dating back nearly 1,000 years to the dawn of Christianity in the region.
A strike near Babyn Yar; but this time Jewish acceptance in Ukraine is growing
By Yonat Shimron — March 2, 2022
(RNS) — For many Jews, Ukraine brings up memories of pogroms, antisemitism and Nazi collaboration. But Jewish life in Ukraine is no longer what it was.
Ukrainian-American Jews pray, anxiously await news from family back home
By Menachem Wecker — February 25, 2022
WASHINGTON (RNS) — 'It’s scary, because they don’t know what’s to come.'
Why are so many players in the impeachment trial Jewish?
By Yonat Shimron — November 13, 2019
(RNS) — It’s mostly a coincidence, and there’s certainly no connection between them, but there are a few intriguing historical notes that might shed light on this curious set of circumstances.
Ukrainian city remembers Jews on Holocaust anniversary
By Randy Herschaft — September 2, 2018
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Once a major center of Jewish life, the city is observing the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of its Jewish population by honoring those working to preserve what they can of that vanished world.
Ukraine monuments on mass graves recognize Jews killed in Holocaust
By Michael Scaturro — July 15, 2015
LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) New monuments to Ukrainian Jews killed by the Nazis give family members a place to visit and pay their respects, seven decades later.
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