(JTA) — KYIV, Ukraine — Viktoria Maksimovich’s students at the Sha’alavim Jewish Day School no longer run for shelters when air raid sirens sound. “They don’t want to hear the alarms. They don’t care ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Two members of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia are headed to Ukraine this weekend. The organization's CEO, Michael Balaban, is one of those flying to assist Jewish ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — When the bombs started falling on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, last month, Tatyana Zhuravliova had a horrible deja vu: the 83-year-old Ukrainian Jew felt the same panic she ...
A letter to our community: On Feb. 24, 2025, we marked a bitter anniversary: Three years ago, Russia invaded Ukraine, sparking the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe since WWII. Ukraine has endured ...
The Central Committee for the National Minorities has just issued a statement on the position of the Jewish population in the Ukraine. Although there are no definite figures available, it says, it is ...
When we sit down for our Passover Seders this year, we’ll begin the retelling of our story as we do every year–by opening the front door, lifting up the matzah, and extending to all an invitation to ...
This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I grew up speaking Russian ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. (JTA) — A historic synagogue in Odessa, ...
One of Ukraine's most prominent Jewish leaders sees Putin's Ukraine invasion as "a pure military invasion," NBC News reported. Crimeans will head to the polls on Sunday to vote in a referendum to ...
A synagogue in Kherson, Ukraine, was hit Thursday by a Russian missile, causing significant damage to the building but no injuries, according to a social media account affiliated with the ...
KYIV, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Hasidic Jews arriving in Ukraine for an annual pilgrimage were stranded at airports on Friday after the government partially closed the border, a representative of the Rabbi ...
(Norman Golb (1928 – 2020) was a scholar of Jewish history and the Ludwig Rosenberger Professor in Jewish History and Civilization at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Norman Golb ...