President Zelenskyy is Ukraine’s first Jewish president , and his identity has often been used as further evidence of a ...

Orthodox Jews dance at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, to mark the Jewish new year in the town of Uman, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Ukraine's ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. On August 12, 1952, 13 Jewish citizens ...

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff was driving through Ukraine, from Odesa to Kherson, last month with his wife Chaya and their 19-year-old daughter Reizi when a Russian drone struck his white Toyota Land ...

“Even in very difficult and sad times, we find the strength to gather, organize and plan — and we do not give up,” said Kyiv resident Olga Bard. Nicole Tolkacheva, 52, has endured nearly two and a ...

The turmoil in Ukraine has left one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities on edge. After an outbreak of violence in Kiev last week that left dozens of protesters and policemen dead, President Viktor ...

(JTA) It is a sultry Sunday evening in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, and a dozen men are preparing for the evening prayer at the Golden Rose Synagogue of the Menorah Center. In another space of what’s ...

Support from Jewish groups abroad has dried up as the war grinds on, says community leader Hennadiy Kysliuk. BERDYCHIV, Ukraine — Back in early 2022, Hennadiy Kysliuk felt that he was on the verge of ...

When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do something that, until recently, had been impossible — to pray for him by ...

A Ukrainian refugee receives help at the Korczowa-Krakowiec border crossing in Poland. (Photo credit: Eyal Warsavsky, Jewish Federations of North America) A letter to our community: On Feb. 24, 2025, ...

UMAN, Ukraine — Prayer chants and the sounding of traditional ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman, in central Ukraine, as thousands of pilgrims join an annual gathering to mark the Jewish new ...