Those who decry Hungary’s Orbán for his party’s past while cheering on Ukrainian nationalism are being inconsistent. It illustrates fallacies about defending both Jews and democracy.
Lev Gringauz, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published April 4, 2022
In the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an Israeli friend contacted Jenna Mitelman and asked her to help two Ukrainian refugees. A single mother and her nine-year-old boy needed housing. Where could they go?
“Within two hours she had...
(JTA) – Is now the right moment to the ways Ukrainians collaborated with the Nazis during the Holocaust?
More than a month Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a war that the west has universally condemned, the past has continued...
(JTA) – On Feb. 24, two shipping containers laden with 20,000 pounds of shmura matzah were slated to head out of port in Odessa, Ukraine, on their way to Orthodox Jews in the United States.
Two hours before they were to be loaded onto a ship, Russia...
Chanie Myers, Chabad.org
• Published March 29, 2022
(Chabad.org) -- Together with her husband, Slovakian Chief Rabbi Baruch Myers, Chanie Myers serves as Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Bratislava. Over the past few weeks, the Myers family has welcomed a stream of Ukrainian refugees into their home. Here,...
NAAMA BARAK, Israel21c.org
• Published March 24, 2022
On Tuesday, Israel began accepting patients at its humanitarian field hospital in western Ukraine, where it will treat people affected by the war raging in the country.
Situated in the western Ukrainian city of Mostyska and called “Shining Star,”...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published March 23, 2022
Two St. Louisans, Greg Yawitz, Chair of the Board of Directors of Jewish Federation of St. Louis, and Abby Goldstein, a lay leader at Federation, are on a mission to witness first-hand the largest refugee crises since the end of World War II. Yawitz and...
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s great-grandparents died when the Nazis burned their village, he said in an interview on CNN Monday.
Speaking through a translator with Fareed Zakaria, Zelensky said, as he has many times before,...
Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward
• Published March 21, 2022
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American Jewish leaders and organizations are traveling to Ukraine’s borders on missions to witness...
(JNS) Israel held its collective breath on Sunday as hundreds of thousands converged on Bnei Brak to take part in the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, 94, one of the most prominent scholars and influential leaders of the Haredi world.
Almost a year...
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Before the Holocaust, Dnipro, a city in eastern Ukraine on the Dnieper River, had a rich Jewish...
