Tag: Jewish refugees
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...
Israeli immigration minister visits Ukraine to boost ‘aliyah’
Israeli Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata visited the Israeli field hospital in Mostyska on Thursday, together with a delegation of Jewish Agency and Keren Hayesod leaders.
Tamano-Shata and the delegation landed in Poland on Wednesday, where...
Why does the world care what Israel does about Ukraine?
It has long been axiomatic that Israel—a tiny country whose people comprise a tenth of a percent of the world’s population and whose land mass is an exponentially smaller fraction of a percent of...
Lapid meets Romanian counterpart in Bucharest to discuss Ukraine crisis
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid met in Bucharest on Sunday with his Romanian counterpart, Bogdan Aurescu, to discuss the Ukraine crisis and the refugee issue. Following his meeting with Aurescu, Lapid was scheduled to...
Former largest yeshivah in world becomes refugee camp in Poland for Ukrainian Jews
A yeshivah in Poland that was once the largest in the world has been converted into a refugee camp for Ukrainian Jews fleeing their home county as Russia’s war continues.
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva operated in...
Jewish refugees outside Moldova’s capital struggle with their next move
Some 5,000 Jewish refugees have reached safety in Moldova, a small country wedged between Ukraine and Romania. A fraction found shelter at the Dacia Marin recreation center, 15 miles east of the capital Chisinau....
Turkey: How nearly 800 Jewish refugees perished during the Holocaust
Feb. 24 marked the 79th anniversary of a Holocaust-era tragedy in which nearly 800 Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania lost their lives in the Black Sea. Their ship, the Struma, exploded in 1942 following an...
Jewish Refugees Return to Fight Hitler
About Face: Jewish Refugees in the Armed Forces, a 2020 documentary, is now streaming on Amazon. The film documents the thought-provoking WWII story of young Jewish men and women who escaped certain death at...