PALANCA, Moldova (JTA) — When you stand under the border post between Ukraine and Moldova, things feel almost normal. There are a dozen cars being processed. There is a border guard drawing on a cheap cigarette. There is even a duty-free shop where you can buy yourself a coffee. And yet there was nothing normal…
(JTA) – Five years after raising the age limit for Israel tour participants, Birthright Israel is reverting to a policy of funding free trips only to young adults 26 and under. This summer will be the last chance for Jews aged 27 to 32 to participate in Birthright, with the exception of anyone older who…
(JTA) — Robert Regan, the Republican nominee for a safely conservative state House seat in Michigan, has frequently re-posted antisemitic content and shared his own extreme views on Jews. Regan is in a good position to win a May 3 special election for a vacant seat representing Kent County, Michigan’s 74th state district, after winning…
This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. When Alexander Gaidar left Irpin on February 20 to attend the funeral of his father in Germany, he had no way of knowing that the quiet Kyiv suburb which he has long called home would soon make international headlines. Sadly, that’s what happened…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday compared the Russian bombardment of Ukrainian major cities and the targeting of civilians as they are being evacuated to the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. “This is just pure Nazi behavior, this is Nazism,” Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, said in a Zoom…
(JTA) — Hundreds of Ukrainian refugees landed in Israel Sunday, among them some 90 orphans between the ages of two and 12, in what Israeli government officials are expecting will be a wave of thousands of Ukrainian Jews immigrating to Israel in the coming months. But whether Israel will accept Ukrainian refugees who are not…
(JTA) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Israel for its support for his country Sunday, the day after Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew to Moscow for a three-hour meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I am grateful to Israel for their support for Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said, according to a translation by Sky News published…
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had a marathon day of negotiations that cemented Israel’s place at the forefront of international talks on the hostilities in Ukraine, starting with an unexpected meeting in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bennett spoke with Putin for three hours on Saturday, according to his office, then flew…
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — Vandals have stolen this city’s memorial to Anne Frank in what Jewish leaders are calling a crime likely motivated by the value of the statue’s metals, not antisemitism. The Netherlands’ embassy in Buenos Aires tweeted an image of the statue’s spot on Friday alongside a message condemning the robbery. Police have…
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) – Masbia, the kosher soup kitchen and food pantry, has partnered with food delivery service DoorDash to provide kosher meals and groceries to families facing food insecurity in Brooklyn and Queens. The partnership is part of Project Dash, DoorDash’s social impact initiative, in which the San Francisco-based company partners…
(JTA) — Konstantyn Batozsky believes he is on a list of so-called “neo-Nazis” to be rounded up “Gestapo-style” and “exterminated” by Russian forces seeking to enter Kyiv. Batozsky, a Jew from eastern Ukraine, said he was informed about the “bounty on his head” by Ukrainian intelligence sources. But as a longtime and avowed Ukrainian nationalist…
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