Section: Jewish Telegraphic Agency (USA)
Ukrainian nationalists destroy Hasidic tent city at rabbi’s grave in Uman
(JTA) — Ukrainian nationalists destroyed a tent city erected by Hasidic Jews in Uman, ahead of the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage. “On Shabbat, when they knew we wouldn’t be able to respond or activate the communication device, they simply knocked down the fence, pushed the light poles and security cameras and caused damage estimated at...
For aliyah promoters, Ukraine’s troubles provide a boost
Rabbi Shlomo Neeman, left, founder of the Kiev-based Zionist Seminary, and staff at the Tchelet summer camp in the Republic of Georgia, Aug. 19, 2015. (Eliyahu Yurovsky) TBILISI, Georgia (JTA) — Until April of last year, Julia Podinovskaya felt like she had a pretty good handle on where her life was going. Born to a middle-class Jewish family in...
Amid fighting in Syria, Holocaust survivor’s grandson planning aliyah
(JTA) — The British grandson of a Holocaust survivor said he will move to Israel when he is done fighting Islamists in Syria. Timothy Paul Jacobs-Woodworth, 37, revealed his plan in an interview published Sunday by the news website Ynet. One of Jacobs-Woodworth’s grandfathers survived the Dachau concentration camp after losing his mother at...
Amid fighting in Syria, Holocaust survivor’s grandson plans aliyah
(JTA) — A British man whose grandfather survived the Holocaust said he would move to Israel when he is done fighting Islamists in Syria. Timothy Paul Jacobs-Woodworth, 37, revealed his plan to immigrate in an interview published Sunday by the news site Ynet. One of Jacobs-Woodworth’s grandfathers survived the Nazi concentration camp of...
Crimea Reform Jewish leader thanks Putin in post-annexation meet
KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — During a meeting with Vladimir Putin, a leader of Reform Jews in Crimea said his community’s situation has improved since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine. Anatoly Gendin, chairman of the Ner Tamid Reform Synagogue in the Crimean capital of Simferopol, thanked the Russian president Monday for what Gendin...
Poroshenko to visit Israel for first time as Ukraine president
KIEV, Ukraine (JTA) — In a move that may anger Russia, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly scheduled to visit Ukraine soon and host its president in Jerusalem. Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, Hennadii Nadolenko, announced the plans for the visits in an op-ed published this week ahead of Ukraine’s 24th independence...
Ukrainian Jewish summer camp relocated due to war
(JTA) — Citing ongoing fighting in Ukraine, a Kiev-based Jewish organization transferred its summer camp for young Jews to the Caucasus nation of Georgia. The Midrasha Zionit, or Zionist Seminary, sent approximately 140 participants of the group’s Tchelet summer camp this year to a resort in Georgia’s Lake Bazaleti. The move was “a...
Wearing my kippah in Italy — and feeling fine
People eating in a Jewish restaurant in the Ghetto district on July 20, 2013, in Rome, Italy. JTA’s Ben Sales found a thriving Jewish community in the Italian capital. (Giorgio Cosulich/Getty Images) During my four months studying in Italy in the fall of 2007, you could say I had more than my fair share of strange Jewish experiences....
Construction begins at Ukraine Jewish refugee village
Rabbi Moshe Azman, left, and Ambassador Eliav Belotserkovsky on July 30, 2015, near Kiev. (R. Lenskiy/JTA) (JTA) — A prominent Ukrainian rabbi and Israel’s ambassador to Kiev attended the groundbreaking ceremony for a village for Jewish refugees from the conflict raging in eastern Ukraine. At the ceremony earlier this month near the village...
Ukraine Jewish headstones, Hungary Holocaust monument smashed
(JTA) — Headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Ukraine and a Holocaust memorial monument in Hungary were destroyed in suspected anti-Semitic vandalism. Ukrainian Police received a report of the vandalism at the Jewish cemetery of Uzhgorod in the country’s west earlier this week, the news site transkarpathianews.net reported. Unidentified...
