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 ...

Orthodox Jews dance at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, to mark the Jewish new year in the town of Uman, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Ukraine's ...

A teen leader of a high school cultural club discovers how food, language and tradition can connect communities.

Vladimir Putin has, on several occations, justfied his war on Ukraine by calling it a peacekeeping mission to “denazifi” the ...

As winter descends upon the former Soviet Union, the cold comes swiftly and severely. For many elderly Jews living in Ukraine, the bitter chill is more than just uncomfortable. It is life-threatening.

Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff was driving through Ukraine, from Odesa to Kherson, last month with his wife Chaya and their 19-year-old daughter Reizi when a Russian drone struck his white Toyota Land ...

“Even in very difficult and sad times, we find the strength to gather, organize and plan — and we do not give up,” said Kyiv resident Olga Bard. Nicole Tolkacheva, 52, has endured nearly two and a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Police launch investigation after a farmer in Ukraine plowed a 19th-century Jewish cemetery, destroying tombstones, which ...