Section: The Jerusalem Post (Israel)
For local Jews Ukrainian revolution was ‘a mixed blessing’
Coinciding with a “resurgence of virulent anti-Semitism in Ukraine,” as the Simon Wiesenthal Center defines it, the glorification of Jew killers has divided the Ukrainian citizenry. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Two ancient former synagogues destroyed in Poland and Ukraine
Local authorities and conservation activists failed to register the building in Poland as an architectural monument. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Putin adviser denies antisemitic conspiracy about Ukraine’s new president
The reports on the op-ed, which was published Monday in the Zavtra news website, prompted an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson to call the op-ed “conspiratorial and anti-Semitic.” …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Ukraine may adopt IHRA definition of antisemitism
The country is also applying for membership in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Elkin invites new Ukranian President to Israel
Born in 1978 to Jewish parents, Zelenskiy became Ukraine’s first Jewish president. Ukraine’s Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman is also Jewish. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Ukraine applies to international task force on Holocaust education
“The absence of anti-Semitic rhetoric during the campaign is a miracle, a stunning fact that shows how far Ukraine has come.” …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Knesset Members vow Jewish continuity at Jewish conference in Ukraine
MKs meet with President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky and attend ‘Kyiv Jewish Forum’ hosted by the Jewish confederation of Ukraine. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
President-elect of Ukraine meets with local chief rabbis
The delegation presented Zelenskiy a Torah in Russian. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Antisemitism promoted by governments on 3 continents, report finds
Tel Aviv University’s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry singled out officials in Venezuela, Turkey, Poland and Ukraine as promoters of hatred of Jews. …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
Putin inquires into new Ukrainian president’s position on East Ukraine
…read more Source: The Jerusalem...