Many of Ukraine’s Jews have fled either to Europe or Israel during the war, but the Institute for Jewish Policy Research estimates that there is a core Jewish population of 32,000 still living in ...

Muzikus, a traditional Jew and active community member, hung a mezuza from the door of his official office in the “Cabinet of ...

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The Jewish hospital in Odessa, founded in 1800 with six beds, is undergoing extensive restoration. During the pogroms, a tent camp was set up that helped 50,000 victims.

Ukraine will build a synagogue at the memorial site commemorating the victims of Babyn Yar, one of the biggest single ...

Every place we went, there was someone who knew where the former cemetery or synagogue was,” David Kaufman told JNS.

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Thousands of Orthodox Jews flocked to the Ukrainian city of Uman on Monday for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, despite warnings from Kyiv not to travel due to the Russian invasion. It is the second ...

For most of her life, Peruvian-born Yvette Merzbacher wondered where her four paternal great-grandparents were buried. All she knew was that her grandparents came from Bessarabia, and that her ...

NOVOKATOVSK, Transnistria — In this tiny, hardscrabble village that could easily be mistaken for the fictional Anatevka in “Fiddler on the Roof,” farmer Or Cohen, 35, lives with his wife, Anya, and ...