July 18, 2014
1:25 am

Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar putting teffilin on 102-year old David Barulya, a World War II veteran and Crimean Holocaust survivor, at a Holocaust commemoration ceremony in Sevastopol, July 10, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)

Putin the ‘protector of minority rights’ puts on show in Crimea

2014 Remembrance Day for Victims of the Nazis is the first state-sponsored Jewish event since Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in March

By Cnaan Liphshiz

July 17, 2014
12:34 pm

US President Barack Obama speaks on the economy at the Lake Harriet Band Shell in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN)

US, EU stiffen sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

Penalties target Moscow’s finance, military, and energy sectors; Putin warns of ‘very serious damage’ to US diplomatic ties

By Stephen Collinson

July 10, 2014
1:16 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks with Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar in front of a portrait of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson as he visits the library of the Schneerson family of Hasidic rabbis in the Jewish Museum in Moscow, Thursday, June 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin, highlighting shameless liars, bitterly calls Goebbels a ‘talented man’

Russian leader thanks international gathering of rabbis for communities’ fight against ‘Nazi revival’

By JTA

July 7, 2014
11:41 am

Raoul Wallenberg, right, with Jews in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest, exact date uncertain (photo credit: courtesy Yad Vashem)

Family of Holocaust hero Wallenberg still wants answers

Diplomat who saved thousands from the Nazis disappeared after being imprisoned by Soviets in 1945

By NIna Larson

July 5, 2014
1:42 am

Russian soldiers and pro-Russian volunteers during a military parade rehearsal in preparation for the Victory Day parade in Simferopol, Crimea, on April 12, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Yuri Lashov)

Russia broadens anti-incitement law to include separatism

After Crimea annexation, Moscow threatens to jail dissenting bloggers for up to 5 years

By AFP

June 30, 2014
9:37 pm

Ukraine's President-elect Petro Poroshenko, right, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, second left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, applaud during the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day in Ouistreham, western France, Friday, June 6, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Ukraine’s leader talks with Putin, Merkel on peace

Despite announcement of ceasefire by President Poroshenko, rebels in east have not put down their weapons

By David McHugh and Balint Szlanko

June 27, 2014
2:45 pm

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, center, poses with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, left, and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, right, during an EU Summit in Brussels on Friday, June 27, 2014. (AP Photo)

Ukraine, EU sign historic trade and economic pact

Kiev ‘paid the highest possible price to make her European dreams come true,’ says country’s president

By John-Thor Dahlburg

June 27, 2014
10:18 am

A man says goodbye to his relatives as they prepare to cross the border into Russia at the Ukrainian-Russian border checkpoint in Izvaryne, Luhansk region, eastern Ukraine Thursday, June 26, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Germany eases immigration for Ukrainian Jews

Thousands of citizens flee for Russia; truce nears end

By Balint Szlanko

June 26, 2014
6:43 pm

Israeli President Shimon Peres addresses the US Congress after being awarded the Congressional Gold Medal, July 26, 2014 (photo credit: YouTube screen cap)

Peres honored by Congress, calls for ‘start-up region’

90-year-old statesman lauded by American leaders as a ‘force of nature’ and inspiration

By Adiv Sterman

June 26, 2014
5:40 pm

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

Abbas: PA committed to locating abducted teens

Palestinian leader expresses hope missing Israelis are alive and well, voices readiness to resume peace talks

By Adiv Sterman

June 26, 2014
12:57 pm

Putin and Abbas in Bethlehem, 2011 (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90)

Putin calls for renewal of peace process in Abbas meet

Russian president notes ‘situation not improving’ as IDF continues West Bank operation

By Lazar Berman

June 24, 2014
6:01 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on June 22, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin withdraws request to use force in Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko hails move as ‘practical step’ toward peace in the region

By Laura Mills

June 22, 2014
1:35 am

Pavel Gubarev, center, self-proclaimed people's governor, surrounded by pro-Russian fighters, speaks before taking the oath of allegiance to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, on Lenin square in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, June 21, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Putin backs Ukraine ceasefire, but warns against peace plan

Russian president supports move to end fighting, says Kiev’s offer of amnesty for separatists not viable without negotiations

By AP

June 21, 2014
1:29 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin (photo credit: AP/RIA Novosti Kremlin/Mikhail Klimentyev/Presidential Press Service/File)

Putin orders forces in central Russia on combat alert

Russian leader orders move as Ukraine declares cease-fire with rebels in the east