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Moisey Katsman, a disabled, homebound Holocaust survivor, enjoys apples and honey delivered in advance of Rosh Hashanah 2023. He is one of thousands of the country's neediest Jews receiving New Year food packages from the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in partnership with the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, Claims Conference and Jewish Federations of North America. Photo by Misha Kovalev.

Groups deliver New Year staples to thousands of Jews in Ukraine

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Ahead of the Jewish New Year and more than 18 months since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is providing thousands of the most impoverished Jews in...
“It took U.S. experts too much time to realize that the Russian war against Ukraine is our war,” Ukraine-born historian Yohanan Petrovsky-Stern told JNS.

Chicago’s Ukrainian Jewish community reflects on war and troubled history of Soviet past

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Ukrainian Jews who have settled in Illinois since war began in their country a year ago report that the state has been largely pro-Ukraine and that those who seemed initially hesitant to support the...
Wave of Ukrainian refugees. Credit: rfranca/Shutterstock.

One year into the war, the displacement, physically and emotionally, of Ukrainian Jews

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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...
A JDC Jewish community volunteer helps an elderly woman onto a bus that is part of a JDC evacuation convo out of the city of Dnipro during the height of the conflict. Photo by Misha Kovalev.

One year into the war, Jewish humanitarian efforts remain in full throttle in Ukraine

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PART ONE OF TWO STORIES As the Russian invasion of Ukraine approaches its one-year anniversary on Friday, North American Jewish leaders at the forefront of humanitarian aid to Ukraine are appreciative of the ways Jews...
Ukrainian refugee. Credit: Courtesy of the Jewish Federations of North America.

American Jewish community mobilizes to resettle Ukrainian refugees in midst of war

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The White House is testing a unique solution to the growing Ukraine refugee crisis. The American Jewish community is testing its response. The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has launched a direct sponsorship program...
Jewish men, women and children evacuate from the city of Odessa, Ukraine, during Russia's invasion of the country, which began on Feb. 24, 2022. Credit: JDC.

On frontlines and borderlines: JDC races to assist refugee situation in Eastern Europe

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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,...
Jewish Ukrainians who fled war zones in the Ukraine, arriving on a rescue flight at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, March 17, 2022. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/Flash90

After slow start, Israel’s ‘aliyah’ machine for Ukraine kicks into gear

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The Ukraine war has led to a wave of aliyah from the war-torn country, along with a wave of criticism as organizations managing that immigration came under fire for not working faster. On March 18, the...
Ukrainian refugees waiting for a bus to take them to safey. Photo by David Isaac.

Jewish Agency launches ‘Aliyah Express’ to expedite Ukrainian move to Israel

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In anticipation of a massive wave of immigration from Ukraine, the Jewish Agency for Israel has launched its “Aliyah Express” program to expedite the immigration process resulting in thousands of Ukrainian Jewish refugees arriving in...
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...
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...