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Fast Forward Ukrainian Jewish Community Goes on ‘High Alert’ During Protests
Widespread protests in Ukraine have prompted the country’s Jewish communities to up security arrangements, a community leader from Kiev has said. “Now that streets across Ukraine are full of civilians, the community’s safety is becoming our primary concern,” Oleksandr Feldman, a Ukrainian lawmaker and president of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, wrote in statement published Wednesday…
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Fast Forward Pig’s Head Dumped at Ukraine Chabad Synagogue
A pig’s head was left on the doorstep of a synagogue being built in Sevastopol, the Ukrainian city’s Jewish community said. Amid intensifying opposition to the synagogue’s construction, the news site zarusskiy.org reported Wednesday that the head was discovered Monday by members of the Jewish community. The Chabad movement began building last year in the…
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Fast Forward Brash Ukraine Oligarch Vadim Rabinovich Challenges Europe’s Jewish Leaders
(JTA) — The explosion that ripped through Vadim Rabinovich’s luxury SUV in central Kiev was strong enough to send a shock wave from the parking lot up to his third-floor office in the heart of the Ukrainian capital. “It was a shock for a day or two,” Rabinovich said, “and then I moved on.” The…
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Fast Forward Kiev Rabbi Wins Battle To Keep 18 Torah Scrolls
A Kiev rabbi has won a protracted legal battle against a Ukrainian governmental agency for his synagogue’s ownership of 18 Torah scrolls. The Kiev Economic Court of Appeals ruled last week that Rabbi Moshe Azman’s Central Synagogue in Kiev may keep the scrolls as its possession. Ukraine’s State Archive Service had transferred the scrolls to…
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Fast Forward Ukraine Jews Lose Court Bid for Return of 110-Year-Old Shul in Balta
The Jewish community of Balta in Ukraine has lost its bid to gain possession of a former synagogue which it helped build. The 100-year-old Savranskaya synagogue, which is now an abandoned building owned by the Ukrtelecom communications firm, will remain the firm’s property, the Odessa Administrative Court of Appeals ruled earlier this month. The ruling…
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Fast Forward Ukrainian Authorities Investigating Anti-Semitic Attack by Two Policemen
ODESSA, Ukraine — Investigators in Lviv are looking into claims that two policemen assaulted and urinated on a Jewish man as part of an anti-Semitic attack, Ukrainian media reported. The alleged victim, Dmitry Flekman, 28, told the Ukrainian newspaper Segondiya that two men, who identified themselves as police but did not give their names, assaulted…
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Fast Forward 2 New Synagogues Open in Kiev for Reform and Orthodox Jews
Two new synagogues, one of them for a Reform community, opened in Kiev. Some 120 people attended the Sept. 27 dedication ceremony of the Reform synagogue and community center of the Congregation Hatikva in the Ukrainian capital, according to Alexander Haydar, executive director of the Religious Union for Progressive Jewish Congregations of Ukraine. The new…
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Fast Forward Synagogue in Ukraine Hometown of Late Lubavitcher Rebbe Schneerson Gets $100K Facelift
The Jewish community of Nikolayev in southern Ukraine, the hometown of the late leader of Chabad, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, has renovated and rededicated its century-old synagogue. Hundreds of Jews attended the rededication ceremony earlier this month to celebrate the $100,000 renovation which gave the structure marble floors, Jerusalem-stone panels and air conditioning, the synagogue’s…
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