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Uman

Travel / Ukraine

Israel Again Warns Against Traveling to Uman for Rosh HaShanah

By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency

Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, the Chief Rabbi of Ukraine, also called on Jewish pilgrims to refrain from traveling to Uman this year due to fear of Russian attacks.

Israel / Ukraine / Coronavirus

Ukraine and Israel Agree to Continue Consultations on Vaccination Passports

By Jewish Press News Desk

The two sides compared notes in preparation for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Ukraine, in September.

Headline / Haredim & Hassidim / Government / Holidays & Observances / Judaism

Israeli Foreign Ministry to Open Temporary Consulate in Uman for Rosh Hashanah

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The Ministry said the consulate will deal with matters such as lost or stolen travel documents, and any other emergency assistance.

Op-Eds

UNESCO, Uman, and the Final War on Jerusalem

By David Mark

By rejecting Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, UNESCO, as a world body, opened the first shot in the world’s war against Jerusalem, as prophesized ago millennia ago

Jewish / News Briefs / Obituaries

Missing Jew Found Dead in Uman

By Jewish Press Staff

The body of Amir Shlomo Ohana (28), who went missing in Uman over Rosh Hashana, has been found in a lake.

Israel / News Briefs / Holidays & Observances

Breslov Hassidim to Spend Rosh Hashana in Israel

By Jewish Press News Desk

Technical difficulties canceled the flight, and everyone was sent home...

Op-Eds / Fuchs' Focus

The Cult of Uman

By Donny Fuchs

he time of the Uman pilgrimage is upon us, and we dare not ignore the opportunity to highlight the danger.

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Europe / Russia / Judaism

Chief Ukrainian Rabbi Calls for Removal of Provocative Cross

By JTA

The recent placing of a crucifix near the Uman grave of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was an act of “clear provocation,” said Ukraine’s Rabbi Yaakov Bleich, who called for its immediate removal. “Ukraine is not a Jewish country, and Ukrainian Jews respect Christian symbols like crosses,” Bleich told the Jewish Ukrainian news site Еvreiskiy.kiev.ua. “However, […]

Emes Ve-Emunah

Exacting Vengeance on the Gentiles?

By Harry Maryles

Seeing the sight of Jesus on a cross must have made them feel like they were seeing Avodah Zara in the Beis HaMikdash.

Jewish / Global / Religion

New Super-Size Kitchen for Jews in Uman for Rosh HaShanah

By JTA

Jewish volunteers have finished building a kitchen the size of a basketball court in Uman, Ukraine, where they plan to prepare 105,000 meals to serve an expected 20,000 Jews visiting and praying at the burial site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. The new kitchen, donated by philanthropist and entrepreneur Steve Bogomilsky of Florida, replaced a […]

News Briefs

Jewish Money Changer Robbed in Uman

By Jewish Press News Desk

On Friday, local Ukrainians robbed a Jewish money changer in his apartment in Uman, Ukraine, not for from the gravesite of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Hakol Hayehudi reported. The robbers threw a brick at the money changer's head, injuring him. He was taken to hospital for treatment, his condition is mild to moderate.

Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Europe / Religion / Judaism

Breslov Jews Robbed of $50,000 in Uman

By JTA

Unknown assailants robbed $50,000 from Haredi Jews last week at the Uman headquarters of a nonprofit group that works to accommodate the tens of thousands of followers of the Breslover rebbe who will pour into the city for the High Holidays in September, Ukrainian authorities said. The Ukrainian newspaper Segodnia reported that the money was […]

Serials

Freedom Is the Ownership of Time

By Itamar Frankenthal

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