Tag: Ukraine
Is ‘Never Again’ an empty promise?
Growing up as a Jew in traumatized post-Holocaust Germany, I have been haunted by the imperative of “Never Again.” As the Russian army retreats from areas north of Kyiv and we are collectively getting a...
European attitudes towards defense undergo sea change in wake of Ukraine war
The defense awakening across Europe in response to the invasion of Ukraine is most dramatic among Western European countries, which had resisted the previous U.S. administration’s appeals to increase their defense budgets. In a...
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...
Erdan leads mock Passover seder for UN ambassadors, invokes Ukrainian freedom
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan hosted an early Passover seder on Wednesday at the United Nations.
About 50 ambassadors from countries all around the world, including the United States, Ukraine, Japan, Mexico,...
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...
Lapid: Russian forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said on Tuesday that Russian forces committed war crimes “against a defenseless civilian population.”
He added to that by saying, “I strongly condemn these war crimes.”
Speaking during a trilateral meeting in...
War in Ukraine sparks food-security fears, experts say Israel needs national strategy
The problem of national food security, which formerly preoccupied specialists, began to penetrate the world’s consciousness with COVID-19 supply disruptions, but it’s Russia’s war with Ukraine that has given governments a jolt. Ukraine, together...
Fleeing war, young Jewish Ukrainians and Russians find a new homeland
At 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 26, as the first round of shelling began on her hometown of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Valeriya Guseva received a flurry of text messages from her family and friends. “They all...
Healing strangers in the middle of a war zone
For a moment, Yoel Har-Even was distracted. He was speaking via Zoom from Israel’s “Shining Star” field hospital in western Ukraine, and a siren had begun to wail outside.
“Usually when we hear a siren,...