In less than an hour, we will arrive in Kishinev to assess the situation.
Unable to return home due to the war, three groups of Birthright Israel participants are being put up in Israel until the situation improves.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Russia’s military coordination with Israel in Syria is “useful” and will continue, Russia’s embassy to Israel said on Saturday.
The organization asked the Arab students in Ukraine to hold up a sign for Israel so they can be identified.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We stand with the people of Ukraine and hope for an immediate end to this war,” says NGO StandWithUs on Facebook, along with a photo of the event.
The humanitarian aid mission will make its way to the Moldova/Ukraine border over the course of the next few hours.
Brighton Beach is home to one of the largest Ukrainian populations outside of Eastern Europe, so much so that the neighborhood is known by its nickname of “Little Odessa,” named for the Ukrainian port city on the shores of the Black Sea.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The funds will go to humanitarian aid, such as food, medicine, winter relief and emergency services; bolster security at Jewish institutions; respond to emerging needs such as the displacement of people from their homes and provide mobile medical units for the homebound.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“NCSEJ is deeply concerned about the onslaught of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Ukraine,” The National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (NCSEJ) said in a statement. “All appropriate steps must be taken to ensure the safety and well-being of Ukrainians.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The consequences of the crisis, in its diplomatic, economic and security aspects, were reviewed in the discussion,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.
By COLlive.com
All the rabbis and Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are staying in order to be with their communities, but add whoever has the ability to leave Ukraine in a safe way should do so.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Most of the rabbis and Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Ukraine have stayed behind to be with their community members in these difficult moments.
By Israel Hayom
Kyiv’s Chabad House is preparing to host all Jews in need.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced military operations in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine late Wednesday night.
There's two ways to make Aliyah, because you have to, or because you want to.
Due to the sensitivity of the issue and Israel's good working relationship with the two countries, officials are treading carefully to avoid appearance that they’re taking sides.
Vertical Field’s indoor farm is a mobile unit that grows leafy greens such as lettuce, oaky green lettuce, spinach, and basil.
By Israel Hayom
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
33,771 Jewish victims were shot at Babyn Yar by the Nazis and their Ukrainian minions during just two days, September 29 and 30, 1941.
The two sides compared notes in preparation for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Ukraine, in September.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Exports from Israel to Ukraine in 2017 totaled $130 million, with a total trade volume of approximately $940 million.
They need a miracle. Meanwhile, they sing.
This is the first time in the country’s history that a Jewish religious leader has been honored with the highest award of the Ukrainian Parliament.
“We suspect MoleRATs are carrying out these campaigns to obtain sensitive information from its victims to leverage for political purposes.”
The Ukrainian diplomat's social media activities also included a photo of him celebrating his 6oth birthday while posing with a cake depicting Hitler’s 'Mein Kampf.'
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Ukraine is the latest country to establish a diplomatic presence in Israel’s capital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The grave diggers were apparently searching for gold, jewels and other precious items the Jews were wearing when they were slaughtered.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
For some two decades, the IFCJ has been helping Jews make Aliyah.
The museum would serve to rectify a “blind spot” that many Ukrainians have about their country’s role in the Holocaust.
Rabbi Moshe Azman wants the March of the Living trips moved out of Poland.
By JNi.Media
Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, told Arkady Vaispapir’s sons: "With your father’s departure, the whole world has lost a hero."
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Deitsch was attacked in the Ukraine in October 2016.
By JNi.Media
Russian news sources reporting the announced publication noted that in Russia the Goebbels diaries are included in the federal list of banned extremist materials, by a court order.
By Chabad.org
Two men and two women from the Carpathian mountain region attacked Rabbi Mendel Deitsch in Zhitomir.
Rabbi Mendel Deitsch, a longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in France and more recently in Israel, was brutally attacked at Zhitomir’s central train station early Friday morning, where he was discovered and transported to a local hospital. The Jewish Community of Zhitomir was alerted to the attack hours after Deitsch was admitted to the hospital; his condition is considered […]
By JNi.Media
Groysman is married to Elena Ivanovna Groysman. They have two daughters, Christine and Irene, and a son, David.
By JNi.Media
Edelstein was born in Chernivtsi in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), Matviyenko was also born in Ukraine, but started her political career in Leningrad.
Anti-Semitism chased Jews to Israel from Ukraine and France, but not from the rest of Europe and North America.
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has offered a cash payment to Jews from Ukraine to move to Israel. The Jewish Agency criticizes the program.
New immigrants came to Israel from 97 countries.
"It is indisputable that the dominant factor behind Aliyah to Israel from Western Europe is anti-Semitism."
A small plane departing for Russia burst into flames just before takeoff at noon Wednesday at Ben Gurion Intl Airport.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
With one week to go before Passover, 110 new Ukrainian immigrants landed in Israel on Tuesday morning, March 24. The majority of newcomers are refugees who fled the fighting zones in the eastern part of the Ukraine including the husband of a woman killed by a direct rock hit that slammed into their house in […]
By Chabad.org
“This is yet another extraordinarily difficult day that we have endured, and sadly, we have recently known many especially difficult and terrible days."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday morning he has agreed to a cease-fire brokered by France and Germany to end the 10-month stand-off in Ukraine. The deal is amends the cease-fire agreement last September that failed. Each side has agreed to retract heavy weapons, release all prisoners and allow more autonomy to separatists in eastern […]
The accident happened at a 1000-megawatt reactor which plays a role in supplying electricity to the country.
Jewish Agency head Sharansky: 5,000 Jews to make Aliyah from France by the end of the year, or one percent of the French Jewish community.
By JTA
Armed, masked men threatened to burn down the house of one of Ukraine’s chief rabbis.
By JTA
Israel’s ambassador to the Ukraine, Reuven Din El, called the leaks “harmful and dangerous politically, operationally and to our image,” and make Ukrainian Jews subject to charges of dual loyalty.
Ukraine rebels are holding four European observers hostage, and shot down a gov't helicopter, killing 14.
By JTA
The Jewish mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was airlifted to Israel early Tuesday morning for treatment for a gunshot wound shot in a suspected assassination attempt. Kharkov mayor Gennady Kernes was shot in the neck while on his routine morning jog and initially was reported to be struggling for his life. Kernes underwent surgery at […]
The mayor of Ukraine’s second largest city was shot in the back Monday and was rushed to a hospital where he is “fighting for his life,” a Kharkov City Council stated on its website. Different sources reported that the mayor was swimming, cycling or jogging when he was shot from a nearby forest. Kharkov has […]
Ostrovsky was beaten and blindfolded during his captivity
By Roman Mokrinsky / Tazpit News Agency
Tensions continue to mount in eastern Ukraine, with reports of casualties continuing to stream out of the provinces in dispute,