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This undated photo shows the painting of Ivan the Terrible on exhibit in a museum in Ukraine. The museum said the work was a 1911 oil painting that had been stolen during Nazi occupation. (US Attorney’s Office in Washington via AP)
December 23, 2018, 9:12 am
Painting stolen in WWII is heading from US to Ukraine
Artwork, claimed by Ukrainians, came with Connecticut house bought by Tracy couple; Slovakia-born Gabby Tracy survived Holocaust and lost father in concentration camp
By Collin Binkley
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. (Mordecai Baron/Wikipedia)
June 29, 2016, 6:59 pm
Ukraine city names street for Lubavitcher Rebbe
Dnepropetrovsk, home to 50,000 Jews, honors Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who fled city in 1930s
By JTA
Zelig Brez, left, the director of the Jewish Community of Dneproptrovsk, with a local donor, Natan Zolotarevsky, on the roof of the Menorah Center in the eastern Ukraine city, July 15, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
July 30, 2015, 10:22 pm
Ukraine war reinstates Jews’ dependence on foreign charity
Economic disruption and a steep drop in war-wracked nation’s currency deliver crushing blow to home-grown philanthropy
By Cnaan Liphshiz
An illustrative photo of a spray-painted swastika on a window (ADL/JTA)
June 20, 2015, 6:48 am
Vandals daub swastika on Ukraine Holocaust memorial
Head of small community in Nikopol, near Dnepropetrovsk, files complaint after Nazi symbol painted over Star of David
By JTA
Igor Kolomoisky (photo credit: Wikipedia/ Справедливість Повна версія)
April 1, 2015, 7:31 pm
Ukrainian Jewish governor resigns amid dispute with president
Billionaire philanthropist Igor Kolomoisky steps down after standoff with Poroshenko over control of state-owned firms
By JTA
Participants young and old flaunt their Jewish and Ukrainian pride at the Limmud FSU conference in Lviv, Ukraine, November 2014. (photo credit: Yossi Aloni)
November 14, 2014, 3:31 pm
Limmud FSU goes back to Galicia, to build a Jewish future
Away from the tumult of war, Limmud Lviv brings Jews from the former Soviet Union together for an intense weekend of learning — and community building
By Yifa Yaakov
A rendering of the Menorah Center in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, which is said to be the largest Jewish community center in Europe. (Jewish Community of Dneproperovsk/JTA)
October 14, 2014, 2:17 am
Giant 22-story Ukraine JCC provides refuge — in style
The massive Menorah Center is a symbol of Jewish revival — and unity — after decades of Communist repression
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Liliya Menasheva Sadovski and Kim Boruchovitch were among 19 couples wed in Jewish ceremonies in Dnepropetrovsk’s Menora Center, Sept. 14, 2014. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Dnepropetrovsk)
September 17, 2014, 6:03 am
Group Jewish wedding held in eastern Ukraine
Despite logistical and halachic difficulties, 19 Jewish couples wed in mass Dnepropetrovsk huppah
By JTA
Ludmila Lazaurenko, right, with her son Anatoly and mother Nadezhda Belovol at their temporary housing near Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, July 14, 2014. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
July 26, 2014, 6:03 am
Jews from eastern Ukraine weep for decimated homeland
Fleeing ‘place full of death,’ Jewish refugees survive on assistance from local and foreign Jewish groups
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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)
July 23, 2014, 10:34 pm
Ukrainian Jewish leaders slam visit by top rabbis to Crimea
Community says rabbis ‘deceived’ into legitimizing the seizure and annexation of Ukrainian territory
By JTA
Igor Kolomoisky (photo credit: Wikipedia/ Справедливість Повна версія)
July 16, 2014, 12:52 pm
Ukrainian Jewish governor vows to return mosque to Muslims
Igor Kolomoisky made promise at school, which operates from a 1926 mosque confiscated by the Soviet government
By JTA
October 18, 2012, 9:26 am
New Jewish cultural complex opens in Ukraine
Menorah Jewish Community Center in Dnepropetrovsk is being called the largest Jewish center in the world
Natan Shuminov, left, and Kirill Samokhvalov volunteer at a Rosh Hashanah fundraiser last month in Moscow. The event reflected the growing involvement of local Jews in supporting their own communities. (Ilya Dolgopolsky via JTA)
October 5, 2012, 10:35 pm
Local philanthropy takes root among Eastern European Jews
To build a culture of giving, local charities must battle attitudes left over from the Soviet era
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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