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Ukrainian Jews

A synagogue built last year at the Babyn Yar memorial site near Kyiv is meant to resemble a pop-up book. It can fold up and open with a winch. (Photo/JTA-David Saveliev)
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Across Ukraine, a somber High Holiday season captures how war has ravaged a growing Jewish community

by David Saveliev, Nicholas Bennett and JTA October 4, 2022October 4, 2022
Zhanetta Butenko's house was partially destroyed when a rocket crashed through its roof in early March in Hostemel, Ukraine. (Photo/JTA-Jacob Judah)
Posted inWorld

‘The Jews have arrived’: In Bucha and other decimated towns near Kyiv, a Jewish group distributes sorely-needed supplies

by Jacob Judah and JTA September 14, 2022
Political science professor Maksym Gon is at the front in the Donbas region of Ukraine, defending the country from the Russian army. (Photo/Forward-Courtesy Gon)
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This Jewish Ukrainian professor could still be teaching. He chose to go to war instead.

by Helen Chervitz and Forward August 10, 2022August 11, 2022
Rabbi Shaul Horowitz (right) meets a Jewish refugee attending a service at the synagogue of Vinnytsia in June 2022. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Shaul Horowitz)
Posted inWorld

How Russia’s war is undoing 30 years of Jewish community building in Ukraine

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA July 21, 2022
A view of a Shabbat dinner at Moishe House Kyiv, which has housed displaced people during the Russian invasion. (Photo/JUF-JTA-Courtesy Moishe House Kyiv)
Posted inWorld

How the Moishe House in Kyiv became a wartime safe haven

Michelle Cohen by Michelle Cohen and JTA July 1, 2022
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich addresses congregants during the prayer ahead of Yom Kippur at the open-air synagogue at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv, Sep. 15, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Oksana Parafeniuk for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Posted inWorld

A chief rabbi in Ukraine denies sexual misconduct allegations

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA June 15, 2022
Holocaust survivors rescued from the war in Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, April 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
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Ukrainian Holocaust survivors land in Israel on eve of Yom HaShoah

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 28, 2022
Boris Melamed, the president of the Los Angeles Association of Veterans of World War II, stands near his West Hollywood apartment. (Photo/Forward-Olga Grigoryants)
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How to avoid conflict on Victory Day? Take away the microphone.

Olga Grigoryants by Olga Grigoryants and Forward April 27, 2022
Vadim Rabinovich at his office in Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 14, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Cnaan Liphshiz)
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Ukrainian state agency adds Ukrainian Jewish leader to list of pro-Russia ‘traitors’

Cnaan Liphshiz, Netherlands-based Europe Correspondent for JTA by Cnaan Liphshiz and JTA April 20, 2022April 20, 2022
Rabbi Shimshon Izakson at a Jewish center in Chisinau. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Community of Moldova)
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A TikTok rabbi helps Jewish Ukrainian refugees feel comfortable in Moldova shelters

by Jacob Judah and JTA April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

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