Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently made an urgent plea to global leaders: “If you don’t help us now, if you fail to offer a powerful assistance to Ukraine, tomorrow the war will knock on your door.” The war is already knocking. Ukrainians — especially women and children — are fleeing their cities, enduring unimaginable risks….
(Ha’aretz) — After a harrowing journey that took nearly an entire day, a small group of immigrants bound for Israel from Ukraine crossed the border into Poland on Saturday. According to the Jewish Agency, which arranged for their departure, the immigrants will be put up in Warsaw for the next few days before flying to…
For those looking for ways to help Ukrainian Jews, the Forward has compiled a list of organizations that are assisting them or collecting money for nonprofits on the ground. A country of 44 million people led by a Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s rich Jewish history dates back many centuries — Odessa was once the…
(JTA) — Four years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was an actor on the humorous Ukrainian TV show “Servant of the People,” starring as an unlikely president of the Eastern European country. Now, he is at the center of the continent’s most significant conflict since World War II, framing himself as a possible martyr on the world…
In a webinar with American Jews, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S. Friday said she was appalled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that he invaded Ukraine to “denazify” the country. The assertion is particularly ridiculous because “antisemitism is a crime in Ukraine,” Ambassador Oksana Markarova told the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry, an American group…
Anastasia Shostak always expected to celebrate on the day she became a United States citizen. But on the day it happened — yesterday — the Russian-born Los Angeles resident’s thoughts were thousands of miles away— 6,337, to be exact— in Sumy, the northeastern Ukrainian city where her family is hiding in a neighbor’s basement. “If…
As Russia’s military invasion presses closer to the seat of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv, Israel has been reportedly asked to mediate between the two countries. The news, reported by a correspondent for Kan News, an Israeli state-owned television channel, comes as Russia bombards the Ukrainian capital with missile strikes. According to correspondent Gili Cohen,…
When Dovid Margolin spoke to the rebbetzin of Kharkov before Shabbat, he could hear heavy artillery fire in the background. While he didn’t notice any panic in her voice, she quickly moved to make sure her family had started heading to the synagogue basement. Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is just 26 miles west…
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