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Ukraine

A member of Congregation Shirat Ha-Yam in Odesa, Ukraine, with a power generator donated by members of Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills.
Posted inNews

Congregation Beth Am is sending vital aid to Ukrainian Jewish communities

by Sue Fishkoff May 23, 2023May 23, 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
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi provided the illustrations in “For Our Freedom.” (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Project Kesher)
Posted inReligion

The first Passover haggadah in Ukrainian marks a community’s break with Russia

by David I. Klein and JTA March 30, 2023March 30, 2023
a plate of weed nuggets next to three joints
Posted inLetters

Put public health before cannabis cafés; Wake-up call for liberal Jews; etc.

by J. Readers March 7, 2023
Leo Hmelnitsky and the driver who helped him cross the Ukrainian border in 2022.
Posted inBay Area

Walnut Creek man on a mission for Ukraine

by Sue Fishkoff February 27, 2023February 28, 2023
A bookshelf in the town of Medzhybizh with texts in both Hebrew and Russian. (Photo/Jacob Judah)
Posted inWorld

Ukrainian Jews have historically spoken Russian. The war is changing that.

by Jacob Judah and JTA February 23, 2023February 23, 2023
Wreckage of a rocket on a playground in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on the first day of the invasion, Feb.24, 2022. (Photo/Fotoreserg via Depositphoto)
Posted inNews

One year after Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pain is still fresh for local emigres

by Sue Fishkoff February 23, 2023March 6, 2023
A residential building in Kharkiv destroyed by Russian shelling in 2022. (Photo/Fotoreserg)
Posted inWorld

‘There was no time to sleep’: 4 Jews reflect on a year of helping Ukrainians at war

by Steve Lipman and JTA February 23, 2023March 6, 2023
Dr. Michael Baker next to a monument in Mykhailivska Square in Kyiv protected by sandbags, Aug. 2022 (Photo/Courtesy Baker)
Posted inNews

This retired Bay Area surgeon is teaching trauma care to doctors in Ukraine

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 20, 2023
Russia's President Vladimir Putin (right) and Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar attend a ceremony marking the handover of items in the Schneerson library to a Chabad-run museum in Moscow, June 13, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Yuri Kadobnov-AFP via Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

Russia’s Jews are caught in the messy politics of Putin’s war

by Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt and Forward February 15, 2023February 15, 2023

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