Rabbi Mayer Stambler, head of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine, addressed Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and foreign and Ukrainian officials...
Month: August 2019
‘Mitzvah Tanks’ take to the streets of Russia and Ukraine
Summer in Russia and Ukraine sees Mitzvah Tanks visiting the most distant communities throughout the region, thanks to a unique...
Netanyahu Visits Ukraine; Mariyinsky Palace Koshered
For a single day, Ukraine’s Presidential residence was koshered for the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch delivered a...
77th memorial to second largest mass murder of Jews from the FSU
On Sunday, August 11, was the 77th anniversary of the second largest mass execution of Jews in the FSU by...
Girl’s Camp Dream Comes True
As a camper, Liora’s dream was to return to Camp Gan Israel of Rostov, Russia, as a counselor. This year, that...
Krasnaya Sloboda: First Kosher restaurant opens in historic village
The idea of a Jewish shtetl or village was all but destroyed during the holocaust and the rise of soviet...
The Rambam’s 14 holy books have been translated into Russian
Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, happily announced that the Yad HaChazakah, the 14 books written by the Rambam,...
Synagogue walls restored and turned into a museum commemorating the town’s Jewish history
The walls that remained from the synagogue that once stood in Bobruisk, Belarus had stood forlorn, no longer able to...
Chernivtsi: Memorial monument placed on mass grave of pogrom victims
The Jews living in Sadhora [Sadigura], a small shtetl in Ukraine knew no reprieve when the Russians were victorious over...