Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
Welcome to the Forward’s news covrage and posts about the Ukraine.
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News Real-Life Anatevka Offers Refuge for Jews in Strife-Torn Ukraine
(JTA) — At the age of 53, Sergey and Elena Yarelchenko fled their native city of Lugansk with three suitcases and moved into a wooden room in a muddy refugee camp outside Kiev. Like hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine’s war-torn east, life for this Jewish couple in 2014 went from a normal bourgeois…
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Breaking News Ukraine Threatens To Scrap Uman Pilgrimage in Crimea Spat
Following an Israeli minister’s meeting with the governor of an area which Russia annexed from Ukraine, Kiev threatened to tighten visa requirements for tourists from the Jewish state. Ukraine made this threat in a letter sent this week by its ambassador to Tel Aviv to Israel’s foreign ministry, the Segodnya Daily reported Thursday, following the…
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Breaking News Russian Rabbi Accuses Ukrainian President of Playing ‘Jewish Card’
A senior Russian rabbi accused the president of Ukraine of glossing over his country’s Holocaust record and lying about Russia’s treatment of Jews. Rabbi Boruch Gorin, spokesman for Rabbi Berel Lazar, one of Russia’s chief rabbis, made the accusation in an Op-Ed published Friday on the news site Jewish.ru following President Petro Poroshenko’s Dec. 22-24…
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Breaking News Chief Rabbi’s Mausoleum Torched in Ukraine
A Jewish mausoleum in western Ukraine burned down in what a human rights group said may have been a deliberate arson attack connected with a dispute over a commemoration project. The gravesite of Hillel Lichtenstein, a 19th century Jewish sage and former chief rabbi of the Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, was partially destroyed last week…
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Breaking News Hasidic Pilgrim Missing in Ukraine
An Israeli man went missing in Uman during the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage to a Hasidic movement founder’s grave in the Ukraine city. Amir Ohana, 28, has not been seen since Tuesday, when he went into the forest to meditate, according to reports. Ohana, the father of three, reportedly has a serious medical condition. Because…
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Breaking News Ukraine Nationalists Destroy Hasidic Pilgrimage Tent City
Ukrainian nationalists destroyed a tent city erected by Hasidic Jews in Uman, ahead of the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage. “On Shabbat, when they knew we wouldn’t be able to respond or activate the communication device, they simply knocked down the fence, pushed the light poles and security cameras and caused damage estimated at half a…
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Breaking News Crimea Rabbi Thanks Vladimir Putin for Russia Annexation
During a meeting with Vladimir Putin, a leader of Reform Jews in Crimea said his community’s situation has improved since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine. Anatoly Gendin, chairman of the Ner Tamid Reform Synagogue in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, thanked the Russian president Monday for what Gendin described as Russian authorities’ attentiveness to…
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Breaking News Ukrainian Jewish Summer Camp Relocated Due to War
Citing ongoing fighting in Ukraine, a Kiev-based Jewish organization transferred its summer camp for young Jews to the Caucasus nation of Georgia. The Midrasha Zionit, or Zionist Seminary, sent approximately 140 participants of the group’s Tchelet summer camp this year to a resort in Georgia’s Lake Bazaleti. The move was “a response and adaptation to…
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