LUBLIN, Poland – With wars raging in Ukraine and Israel, many Ukrainian Jews feel doubly traumatized by the troubles roiling their native country and the Jewish homeland.
So when over 150 Ukrainian Jews gathered over a recent weekend in Poland for...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published August 23, 2023
On Tuesday, Aug. 15, before retiring for the evening, Abby Goldstein and the other members of the Jewish Federations of North America's Ukraine Response Task Force were told to keep their passports and clothes close by in case of an emergency. At 4 a.m....
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published June 27, 2023
When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022, the Jewish Federation of St. Louis along with the Jewish Federations of North America were uniquely positioned to respond immediately and effectively to the crisis due to their long presence...
WASHINGTON (JTA) –– During the 35 years Eli Rosenbaum spent hunting Nazis, he always looked up to his forebears in the profession. But it was only recently, as he ventured into Ukraine to track down Russian war criminals, that he felt a personal connection...
PJ Grisar, The Forward
• Published December 8, 2022
Gazing off with determination, or even a glimmer of hope on the cover, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, along with the “Spirit of Ukraine,” is the Time Person of the Year, joining an exclusive list of notable people and an even shorter list of Jews. Throughout...
(JTA) — When Russian troops poured across the Ukrainian border in March, thousands fled from the cities that would be first in their path. But in Kherson, the southern port city with strategic value to the Russians, Rabbi Yosef Itzhak Wolff decided...
Bill Motchan, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published August 24, 2022
As college classes wound down last spring, Michael Schmitz started looking for a summer internship. With no prospects on the horizon, he found a much different college break experience: volunteering in Poland for Ukraine relief efforts.
Schmitz, 21,...
VINNYTSIA, Ukraine (JTA) — At this city’s only regularly functioning synagogue, nine men and five women cheer a visitor on as he enters the building.
“Terrific! We have a 10th! Let’s begin!” one of the men, David Goldish, exclaimed during...
Just days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Covenant Place resident, Ruth Mariam, contacted Covenant Place President & CEO, Joan Denison, expressing her desire to help. Mariam, in her 90s, recalled how when her family members went to fight in...
(JTA) — Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky brought up the Holocaust to snap back at former Jewish U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who argued this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Ukraine should...
Tatiana Glezer, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 30, 2022
Editor’s Note: The Jewish Light learned of Russian Jew Tatiana Glezer, 41, and her plight through a network of friends in the United States. Largely fluent in English, she agreed to write her story exclusively for the Light. Many thanks to author and...
(JTA) — Their son may be on TV every night, but the parents of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have consistently declined countless requests for interviews about their own lives.
The rabbi of their hometown of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s east,...
