At the Simcha Chabad Jewish community in Kyiv, Ukraine, the congregation gathered last week for Purim — the third one they have observed since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country. They did a ...

It had all the trappings of a conventional Christmas pageant: the three wise men, Christmas carols, and children dressed as angels.

When Oleg Rostovtsev hovered between life and death after a serious operation last April, he asked friends and family to do something that, until recently, had been impossible — to pray for him by ...

The turmoil in Ukraine has left one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities on edge. After an outbreak of violence in Kiev last week that left dozens of protesters and policemen dead, President Viktor ...

A push to translate sacred texts into Ukraine’s national language peaks just as President Donald Trump abandons U.S. support for the country. As Ukraine’s Jews face a future awash in uncertainty, some ...

(JTA) — Although Ukraine has been charting a bloody course toward civil war for months, Irina Zborovskaya had always felt safe in Odessa. Living in a cosmopolitan city where hate crimes are rare and a ...

The Golden Rose Synagogue and the Menorah Center are pictured in Dnipro, in east-central Ukraine, in May 2024. (Yurii Rylchuk / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Marcel Gascon Barbera ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Olga and David Hruba (pictured at left, and center) at a menorah lighting ceremony on the first ...

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A Ukrainian refugee receives help at the Korczowa-Krakowiec border crossing in Poland. (Photo credit: Eyal Warsavsky, Jewish Federations of North America) A letter to our community: On Feb. 24, 2025, ...