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Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dressed in white robes on their way to the synagogue in Uman, Ukraine, on the eve of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) in 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
March 13, 2021, 6:51 am
Ukrainian senior academic proposes renaming city of Uman after Nazi collaborator
University lecturer suggests new name for city, a major pilgrimage site for Jews, in response to Israel’s complaints about honoring those who aided Nazi regime
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A screen capture from video showing a man assaulting a Hasidic Jew in the Ukrainian city of Uman. (Screen capture: Twitter)
September 2, 2020, 11:43 pm
Ukrainian police probe assault of Jewish pilgrim in Uman
‘This was a classic anti-Semitic incident,’ victim says; Likud MK, Hasidic leader link attack to letter sent by Israel’s virus czar asking that Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage be canceled
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of a security guard outside a synagogue in Ukraine struggling with an ax-wielding attacker, July 28, 2020. (Twitter)
July 28, 2020, 5:06 pm
Guard at Ukrainian synagogue fends off ax-wielding attacker
Security footage shows assailant struggling with guard, then running off and returning to hurl feces at building; rabbi and worshipers reportedly inside at the time
By ToI Staff
A monument to the Holocaust vandalized in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, in a photo shared January 19, 2020 by Israel's ambassador to the country Joel Lion. (Twitter screen capture)
January 19, 2020, 3:09 pm
Holocaust monument in western Ukraine defaced
Israeli ambassador says hopes ‘justice will prevail’; dozens of anti-Semitic incidents reported annually, though report says decline seen since election of Jewish president
By ToI Staff and JTA
Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion, left, and other dignitaries commemorate the Holocaust at the Ukrainian parliament, January 16, 2020. (The Assembly of Nationalities of Ukraine via JTA)
January 17, 2020, 6:03 pm
Ukrainian parliament commemorates Holocaust for the first time
At memorial ceremony, lawmaker says genocide by Nazis ‘was a disaster not only for the Jewish people but for the whole world and specifically the Ukrainian people’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. The rally was organized to mark the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime and who was assassinated in Germany in 1959. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 12, 2020, 4:50 am
Ukraine tells Israel not to criticize veneration for Nazi collaborators
Diplomat says Israeli protests about events honoring Stepan Bandera and others are ‘counterproductive,’ after ambassador condemned Kiev in open letter
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, left, Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Reuven Azman, right, and Kyiv resident Felix Gelfer, a Ukrainian Jew who was circumcised earlier in the day in honor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 20, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
August 20, 2019, 4:38 pm
Ukrainian Jewish man, 70, undergoes circumcision in honor of Netanyahu visit
At event for Jewish community, PM meets septuagenarian Felix Gelfer, who took the Hebrew name Yonatan after Netanyahu’s late IDF commando brother
By Raphael Ahren
Foremr Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the signing of a free trade agreement in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 21, 2019. (Jim Hollander/Pool via AP)
January 24, 2019, 4:06 pm
Top Nazi hunter blasts visiting Ukraine leader for ignoring Holocaust complicity
Efraim Zuroff decries Poroshenko’s ‘chutzpah’ for equating Shoah with Soviet man-made famine in 1930s, says Kiev is perhaps worst offender on distortion of Jewish genocide
By Raphael Ahren
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