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Marcel Gascón Barberá

Marcel Gascón Barberá is a JTA correspondent in Bucharest. He has previously worked as a correspondent for EFE Spanish News Agency in Romania, South Africa and Venezuela.

A man stands talking next to large red generators
Posted inUncategorized

Baking matzah and defying blackouts, Dnipro’s Jews press on despite the grind of Russia’s war on Ukraine

by Marcel Gascón Barberá August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

(JTA) — DNIPRO, Ukraine — 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 […]

The Masorti community in Chernivtsi has doubled to about 70 families because of internal displacement within Ukraine induced by the Russian invasion and ongoing war. (Photo/Courtesy Chernivtsi Jewish Community)
Posted inWorld

Many Ukrainian Jews have left over 2 years of war. Many others are still invested in their local communities.

by Marcel Gascón Barberá March 19, 2024
Jeremy Gordin offers a toast in an undated family photo. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Gordin family)
Posted inObituaries

South African journalist Jeremy Gordin, former J. staffer, murdered in home burglary at 70

by Marcel Gascón Barberá and JTA May 3, 2023
Guests at a seder in Kyiv, Ukraine, including many families from heavily damaged Kharkiv, sit around the seder table on the first night of Passover, April 5, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Marcel Gascon Barbera)
Posted inWorld

Embodying a story of trauma and liberation, Ukrainian Jews celebrate Passover amid a new normal

by Marcel Gascón Barberá and JTA April 5, 2023April 5, 2023
Members of the Masorti community in Kyiv perform in a Purim shpiel, March 6, 2023. (Photo/JTA-Marcel Gascón Barberá)
Posted inNews

Kyiv Jews celebrate their 2nd wartime Purim with renewed resolve and optimism

by Marcel Gascón Barberá and JTA March 7, 2023March 8, 2023
Tuvia Zechter, the retired chef running a kitchen at the Joint Distribution Committee tent near the border crossing in Siret, Romania. (Photo/JTA)
Posted inWorld

‘Jewish soup’ is keeping soldiers and refugees warm at the Romanian-Ukrainian border

by Marcel Gascón Barberá and JTA March 10, 2022March 10, 2022

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