These days, Ukraine runs on two currencies — hryvnia and metaphor. Among the most powerful is the notion of “light in the darkness,” especially urgent amidst rolling blackouts and the billowing black ...

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 ...

Muzikus, a traditional Jew and active community member, hung a mezuza from the door of his official office in the “Cabinet of ...

The Lytvynenko family’s journey of displacement, preserving their heritage and building a home on a new continent will be ...

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UMAN, Ukraine — Prayer chants and the sounding of traditional ram's horns fill the air in the town of Uman, in central Ukraine, as thousands of pilgrims join an annual gathering to mark the Jewish new ...

(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their ...

Ilya Knizhnik came to the United States from Ukraine 31 years ago, but no amount of time or distance can change the fact that he is a Ukrainian. He is also a Jew. So, when Russia invaded Ukraine in ...

Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. On August 12, 1952, 13 Jewish citizens ...

KYIV, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Ukraine accused Belarus on Wednesday of trying to escalate a row over 2,000 Hasidic Jewish pilgrims stranded at a border crossing after Ukrainian border guards did not allow ...

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 ...