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Former U.S. senator Joe Lieberman attends the opening event of the Begin Symposium in Jerusalem, March 13, 2022. Credit: Hanna Taieb.

Joseph Lieberman: US inaction against Russia empowers Iran

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America, the four other permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany should realize that allowing Russia to get away with its invasion of Ukraine “will encourage countries like Iran to be more aggressive with...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid meets with Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu in Bucharest, Romania, March 13, 2022. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem/GPO.

Lapid meets Romanian counterpart in Bucharest to discuss Ukraine crisis

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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...
Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in Lublin, Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Former largest yeshivah in world becomes refugee camp in Poland for Ukrainian Jews

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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 from Ukraine at the Dacia Marin facility, east of Chisinau, Moldova, on March 4, 2022. Credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/IFCJ.

Jewish refugees outside Moldova’s capital struggle with their next move

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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....
A Russian Navy vessel. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

One Israeli killed in Ukraine, another reportedly captured by Russian Navy

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An Israeli citizen was killed by Ukrainian forces on Monday evening, and another has been taken prisoner by the Russian navy, Israel’s Foreign Ministry reported. Roman Brodsky, 37, was shot and killed while trying to...
New immigrants to Israel en route from Lviv to the border-crossing with Poland, Feb. 26, 2022. Credit: Jewish Agency for Israel.

Even when Israeli citizens do not want to go back to Israel the Jewish...

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The Jewish Agency for Israel has opened six aliyah-processing stations at Ukrainian borders, the agency said on Saturday night. The stations are located in Poland, Moldova, Romania and Hungary, and are being operated through a collaboration...
In a Brooklyn neighborhood known for its ex-Soviet population, Jewish Ukrainians say they don’t fear in particular for the country’s Jewish population, instead viewing the conflict as a national struggle.

New York’s ‘Little Odessa’ Jews react to Russia-Ukraine conflict

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News travels in an instant these days, and the updates coming out of Europe are hitting hard in a south Brooklyn neighborhood. Brighton Beach is home to one of the largest Ukrainian populations outside...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Jan. 11, 2022. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Bennett speaks with Ukraine’s Zelensky, pledges humanitarian assistance

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Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday amid the ongoing Russian invasion. “The two leaders discussed the situation in Ukraine, with an emphasis on the Kyiv region,” a readout...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press availability with Israeli Alternate Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 13, 2021. Credit: State Department Photo by Ron Przysucha.

Blinken speaks with Lapid on the situation in Ukraine

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday to discuss the situation in Ukraine. According to a State Department readout, the two foreign ministers discussed “the premeditated, unprovoked,...
Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich leads the memorial ceremony and inauguration of the symbolic synagogue on the site of the Babi Yar Nazi massacre. Credit: Courtesy of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.

Moldova Jewish community comes to Ukrainian Jews’ aid

The Moldova Jewish community, which has in recent weeks been preparing to help thousands of Israelis and Jews fleeing the emerging war zone in Ukraine, has said it is ready to transport people from...