(JTA) — The 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died near her home in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, while the city was under a devastating Russian attack. Her family believed that her survivor testimony died with her.
Obiedkova...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 27, 2022
Eight years ago, during a photography workshop in Greece, Edward Tsimerman met Anastasia and Ilyia, a Russian couple (they asked that their last name not be used). Tsimerman, a Jewish St. Louisan, kept in touch with the couple and in recent weeks, learned...
(JNS) Israel will send helmets and vests to Ukraine’s rescue and emergency services, the Office of Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Wednesday.
During a phone call between Gantz and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, the Israeli...
(JTA) — Ukraine’s government has placed Vadim Rabinovich, a lawmaker and Jewish community leader, on a list of 111 people it called traitors in the war with Russia.
The list was published last week by Rukh Chesno, a nongovernmental organization...
Dovid Margolin, Chabad.org
• Published April 19, 2022
(Chabad.org/News via JNS) As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?”
Ill and emaciated during the last two weeks...
(April 18, 2022 / JNS) The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) announced on Monday that it has surpassed its fundraising goal of $50 million for aid to Ukraine.
According to a news release, the funds have been allocated to 35 NGOs operating...
The Jewish Federation of New York has brought back its annual #Matzahchallenge to help Ukraine.
From April 15 - 23, each post uploaded to social media using the hashtag #MatzahChallenge will unlock $18 toward humanitarian aid for Ukraine, thanks to...
CHISINAU, Moldova (JTA) — MacBook under his arm and sporting the latest AirPods, Shimshon Izakson looked as if — with a change of outfit — he could have just stepped out of a hipster cafe in a trendy neighborhood of Moscow or Bucharest.
But he...
(JTA) — One of Poland’s most prominent journalists, Konstanty Gebert, said he is quitting what many regard as the country’s newspaper of record after it demanded that he describe Ukraine’s controversial Azov Battalion as “far-right”...
(JTA) — Between air-raid sirens in Odessa, Svetlana Niselevitch, an 84-year-old Ukrainian-Jewish Holocaust survivor, has been preparing to join a Passover seder for the first time in her life.
“We didn’t observe Jewish traditions in my family,”...
IRSHAVA, Ukraine (JTA) — Like dozens of displaced persons camps that now dot Eastern Europe, the one in this Ukrainian town near the Hungarian border has inhabitants whose lives were turned upside down by Russia’s war.
But the refugee camp at Irshava...
Bill Motchan, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 8, 2022
One week ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was interviewed by a former St. Louisan, Ben C. Solomon, now a correspondent for Vice News. Solomon, 34, attended H.F. Epstein Hebrew Academy and graduated from Ladue Horton Watkins High School in 2006.
Amid...
