A four-day retreat in Truskavets, Ukraine was organized by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) for nearly 600 Jewish community volunteers from all over Ukraine to come together and learn from each other. The retreat was a chance for the volunteers to find solace and was highlighted by the singing of soulful havdalah tunes...
Hanukkah kits that were distributed to families in Ukraine In Maidan Square in Kyiv, the traditional Hanukkah lighting took place despite the war with Russia. Mayor Vitali Klitschko decided to continue the tradition to show that light can overcome darkness. Ambassadors from the US, Greece, the UK, and Germany were in attendance to show their...
The missile that recently striked Poland was determined to have originated from Ukrainian air-defenses, not from Russia. In response to this, the UK Russian Embassy’s twitter account posted a cartoon of Volodymyr Zelenskyy writing on a chalkboard in reference to the popular meme from The Simpsons. However, the caricature of Zelensky gave him an abnormally...
A recent survey taken of 600 Jews in Ukraine reveals concerns as Ukraine begins its second winter in its war with Russia. As her nine months into the war in Ukraine approach, the impact on civilians continues to grow, especially as the harsh winter months begin. The survey was taken via online and written questionnaires...
The Jewish organization JRoots is working with the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow to turn it into a day-care center for Jewish refugees for Ukraine. This was done to give mothers of refugee families more space to resolve their situations. The children are supervised by teachers and psychologists and they frequently have field trips...
Alexei Venediktov is the Jewish editor of the “Echo of Moscow” radio station in Moscow which has now been banned due to its critical covering of the war. This Thursday outside of his apartment, he found a pig’s head Ukrainian coat of arms sticker with the word “Judensau”, a German slur that means Jewish Pig....
There were 10,000 holocaust survivors who were living in Ukraine before Putin invaded the country. Many of these people were reminded of the pain and fear they went through when fighting and bombing started around them once again. Many Jewish organizations are attempting to move this population out of Ukraine although it is difficult due...
This Thursday, the Department of Aliyah and Integration at Ben-Gurion Airport announced that 8,238 immigrants have come to Israel since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with more than three quarters of these being from Ukraine. The department has been working to shorten the amount of time taken to be considered eligible for Israeli...
Rabbi Meir Holtzberg is the director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Bila Tserkva, a city 50 miles south of Kyiv. He was outside of the country when Russia first invaded but has since returned to visit Jewish communities and ensure that they were able to celebrate the festival of Purim. “It shows me that the Jewish people...
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has recently compared the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Nazi Germany’s campaign of abuse as he continues to plead for stronger assistance from the West and the setup of a no-fly zone. While calling the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations, he stated “This is just a pure Nazi...
