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Design for the Babyn Yar Memorial Center. Credit: BYHMC/Querkraft.

Babi Yar at 79 … and its future

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Over a two-day period, beginning on Sept. 29, 1941, almost the entire Jewish community of Kyiv was wiped out at a ravine on the outskirts of the city known as Babi Yar. The Nazis and...
A view of a memorial with a Jewish menorah at Babi Yar. Credit: Office of the President of Ukraine.

Ukrainian president honors victims of Babi Yar

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky honored on Monday the memory of the victims of the Babi Yar tragedy, where some 33,771 Jews were murdered by Nazis 79 years ago in a ravine in the Ukrainian...

Ukraine’s President Zelensky Addresses US Jewish Leadership

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Ukraine’s President Zelensky to Jewish Leaders: “To those who ask about anti-semitism in Ukraine – just look at me!” In a first meeting with the US Jewish leadership today in a NY hotel, Volodymyr Zelensky,...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is welcomed to the presidential palace in Kiev by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Aug. 19, 2019. Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO.

Jewish group asks Ukrainian president to help build large synagogue in Uman

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Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky vowed on Monday to get to the bottom of an alleged corruption saga that has reportedly been holding up the construction of a synagogue in the city of Uman for...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is welcomed to the presidential palace in Kiev by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, Aug. 19, 2019. Photo: Amos Ben Gershom, GPO.

Netanyahu, Zelensky sign bilateral cooperation deal boosting Israel-Ukrainian ties

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed bilateral agreements on Monday, a day after the Israeli leader landed in Kiev for an official visit. In a statement following the signing at...
President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine's first-ever Jewish president, held a high-profile meeting with Ukraine's regional chief rabbis on May 6. Here, the comedian-turned-politician is presented with a Chumash in Russian translation by Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki and Rabbi Avraham Wolff, as other members of the delegation look on. Credit: Chabad.org/News.

First Jewish president of Ukraine holds ‘historic’ meeting with community-based rabbis

Ukraine’s president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky held what was called a “historic” meeting on May 6 in Kiev with the six leading representatives of the country’s Jewish community. The meeting with the chief rabbis of Ukraine’s six...
Volodymyr Zelensky gives a victory speech after being elected as Ukrainian president on April 21, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

In a landslide vote, Ukraine elects first Jewish president

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In a landslide vote on Sunday, Ukraine elected its first Jewish president, Volodymyr Zelensky, making the country the first outside of Israel that will have both a Jewish president and prime minister. Zelensky, 41, a...