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Mila Kunis Says Ukrainian Owner Barred Her From Childhood Home

(JTA) — The Hollywood actress Mila Kunis, her parents and husband tried to visit her childhood home in Ukraine but a local who opened the door wouldn’t let them in, she said in an interview. Kunis, who is Jewish and in 2012 recalled experiencing anti-Semitism in her native Chernivtsi, recalled her August trip there with…

By JTA Nov 10, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Ukraine President Mistakenly Tweets Photo Of Jews Deported By Nazis

(JTA) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in a post on Twitter added a picture of Jews being deported by Nazis to a text about mass deportations carried out by Soviets against Ukrainians. On Friday, Poroshenko, who rose to power in 2014 following a revolution fueled by anti-Russian sentiment and dissatisfaction over corruption, wrote on Twitter: “Today is…

By JTA Oct 24, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Ukraine Honors Nationalist Leader Blamed For Pogroms

(JTA) — Ukraine unveiled a statue for a nationalist leader who guided a regime that killed tens of thousands of Jews in pogroms during the Russian Revolution. The memorial for Symon Petliura was unveiled Saturday in Vinnitsa, a city in the western part of the nation, on Defender of Ukraine Day, a national holiday, the…

By JTA Oct 16, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Activist Threatened Over Ukraine City Honoring Nazi

(JTA) — An activist against fascism who sued a Ukrainian municipality for naming a street for a Nazi SS officer has come under a campaign of intimidation, he said. Mikhail Voroniak, a Red Army veteran, in summer sued the western municipality of Kalush near Lviv for deciding to name a street for Dmytro Paliiv, a…

By JTA Oct 13, 2017 | < 1 min read
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Kiev’s New JCC Celebrates Marriage Of Elderly Couple Who Met There

KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — Less than a year after it opened, this city’s American-style Jewish community center celebrated the first wedding by a couple who met here: a 68-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man who fell in love during dancing class. Maya Serebryanaya and Valeriy Utvenko registered at City Hall as husband and wife earlier…

By JTA Sep 17, 2017 | < 1 min read
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With Hookers And Coffee Carts, Ukraine City Transformed By Hasidic Pilgrimage

By selling coffee to Jewish tourists, 18-year-old Yuri Breskov can earn in a week more than his teachers from high school make annually in this provincial city. His revenues peak at $3,000 on the week of Rosh Hashanah, when some 30,000 Israelis and other Jews visit the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman. an 18th-century luminary and…

By Cnaan Liphshiz Sep 14, 2017 | 6 min read
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Israeli Man Shot Dead Near Kiev Synagogue

(JTA) — An Israeli man was found shot dead near a Kiev synagogue in what is believed to have been a robbery rather than an anti-Semitic incident. The body of Sachroch Torsonov, 29, of Jerusalem, was found late Wednesday night near the Brodsky Synagogue in the center of the Ukrainian capital, Ynet reported. A suspect…

By JTA Aug 24, 2017 | < 1 min read
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The Brave Jewish Woman Who Helped 37 Souls Survive The Holocaust — In A Cave

When Nazi forces advanced towards the Ukrainian village of Korolówka in 1943, Etcia Goldberg was 36 years old, a widowed mother of three children. As the armies drew closer, Etcia took matters into her own hands, joining a group of 37 Jews to a small cave known as Priest’s Grotto. There, they hid underground, living…

By Jesse Bernstein Jul 27, 2017 | 3 min read

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