Tag: Jewish refugees
Are Jewish and Arab refugees created equal?
Following revelations that the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA colluded with Hamas in Gaza, 12 countries have withdrawn or paused their funding to the agency at time of writing, with more likely to come....
Gaza border residents angry at army’s OK to return home
An internal IDF document revealing that the army is ready to allow the return of residents to some communities in the "Gaza Envelope," the area along the border with the Hamas-run terrorist enclave, has...
How will this Chanukah be remembered?
As much of the world enters Christmas holiday preparation mode, focusing on gift-giving and sharing festive recipes, Israelis are connecting the dots to put this year’s Chanukah festival into context for our time.
Many religious...
Masa Israel intros program for Diaspora volunteers during war
The first group of 20 volunteers for a six-week Masa Israel Journey program to assist residents in the country's south arrived this week.
"The new program allows young Jewish adults from around the world to...
240,000 Israelis living in limbo after Oct. 7
Some 240,000 Israelis are refugees after Hamas's savage attack on their communities close to the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 and Hezbollah's continued rocket strikes from Lebanon.
The Hamas terrorists took the lives of approximately...
One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews
PART TWO OF TWO STORIES
The term “displaced persons” doesn’t always capture adequately how much of a geographical impact wars have. Diana Bukman, who is now half a world away from a colleague in Ukraine...
Ukrainian academics arrive at Hebrew University under emergency aid program
As part of a donor-funded emergency-aid program established at Hebrew University, 18 Ukrainian refugees have been accepted to programs to continue their studies.
Ten of them have already begun, including Anastasiia Zinevych, who has a Ph.D. and...
On frontlines and borderlines: JDC races to assist refugee situation in Eastern Europe
A small family from Kyiv seeking to leave Ukraine early after the fighting broke out contacted the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, commonly known as the JDC or the Joint, for help.
A 40-ish couple,...
Refugee orphan boys from Zhytomyr celebrate bar mitzvah at Western Wall
Just weeks after being forced to flee their homes in the town of Zhytomyr, Ukraine, a group of 13-year-old boys participated in a bar mitzvah celebration at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Monday.
The...
Ukraine war refugees and aid workers to celebrate Passover seder in Poland
Dozens of refugees from the Ukraine war, along with aid workers, have been invited to attend a multifaith Passover seder dinner for some 200 people on April 12 in Przemyśl, in southeastern Poland, to...