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Ukrainian Jewish leader says community in danger of extinction

February 8, 2017 by UCSJ

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ByTamara Zieve In time of crisis, the country's Jews appeal to Israel for support. The future of Ukraine’s Jewish community “doesn’t look very bright” and is in danger of disappearing altogether, according to one of its leaders, who ended a four-day visit to Israel on Thursday. Eduard Dolinsky, executive director…

Antisemitic author given top award by Ukrainian president

February 8, 2017 by UCSJ

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by Sam Sokol Last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shocked the Jewish community by honouring a man who has falsely accused Jews of perpetrating the worst crimes of the Soviet state. Mr Poroshenko’s office announced it was awarding author Vasyl Kvasnovsky the prestigious Order of Freedom. Mr Kvasnovsky has…

The Forgotten Holocaust: The Films of Boris Maftsir

February 8, 2017 by UCSJ

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An Israeli filmmaker works to revive the neglected, terrible history of Shoah victims in the Soviet Union By Izabella Tabarovsky January 27, 2017 (see http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/222730/films-of-boris-maftsir#) In a series of spellbinding documentaries, Boris Maftsir, an Israeli filmmaker, has been racing to prevent the last traces of the Holocaust in the USSR from…

Senior Russian lawmaker: Jews still seeking to destroy our churches

February 8, 2017 by UCSJ

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January 25, 2017 (JTA) — The deputy speaker of the Russian parliament intimated that Jews are using their positions in the media and government to continue the work of ancestors who “pulled down our churches.” Peter Tolstoy at a news conference Tuesday on plans to move a cathedral in St. Petersburg…

‘Shlichut’ under fire: Jewish Agency emissary to Ukraine expects aliya to rise

January 18, 2017 by UCSJ

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BySteve Linde 14 January 2017 Roman Polonsky, director of the Jewish Agency’s Department for Russian-speaking Jewry, says aliya from Ukraine has actually tripled in the last three years. UKRAINIAN OLIM prepare to fly to Israel.. (photo credit:SVETLANA MIKHALCHENKO) Although it is hardly reported in the media, two or three and…

Lithuania Is Building a Convention Center Over Vilna’s Jewish Cemetery. Here’s How You Can Protest

January 12, 2017 by UCSJ

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Locals and top Jewish historians are fighting to prevent the bulldozing of the burial site of one of Europe’s most historic Jewish communities By Yair Rosenberg For centuries, the city of Vilna (today Vilnius) was the center of Jewish life in what was then known as Polish-Lithuania. By the turn of the 20th…

Wiesenthal Center pans Svoboda march but many Ukrainian Jews aren’t worried

January 12, 2017 by UCSJ

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While Ukrainian leaders have condemned anti-Semitism, some charge that the government has turned a blind eye to the ascension of racist figures due to their role in combating separatists. JEWS ATTEND the morning prayer at a synagogue in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, earlier this year. (photo credit:REUTERS) A new year’s torchlight…

UCSJ RESPONSE

January 12, 2017 by UCSJ

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Our colleague Meylakh Sheykhet in Lvov responds strongly to the article, below, which I posted yesterday. The article shows that the authorities in Ukraine do not care about preserving the fate of ethnic groups. The cross in Uman was erected especially to hurt Jews, since the place was chosen exactly…

Vienna rabbis condemn Russia’s chief rabbi for meeting head of Austria’s Freedom Party

January 12, 2017 by UCSJ

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December 27, 2016 (JTA) — Rabbis in Vienna condemned the chief rabbi of Russia for meeting the head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party. Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar met this week with Heinz-Christian Strache and his delegation at his office in Moscow, the UK Jewish News reported. The meeting came…

Donbass refugees celebrate third Hanukka in Kiev

January 12, 2017 by UCSJ

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Members of scattered Jewish community remain strongly connected despite distance between them. {To see video, click on http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Donbass-refugees-celebrate-third-Hanukka-in-Kiev-476623 - G.R} (Jewish refugees of Ukraine's Donbass region celebrate Hanukka at the Khreschatyk Hotel in Kiev on Dec. 25, 2016) KIEV – Dozens of Jewish refugees from the war in Donbass celebrated the…

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