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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Moshe Azman

A handout photo shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (third right) lighting Hanukkah candles with rabbis in Kyiv on December 25, 2024. (UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE)
December 26, 2024, 10:45 pm
Zelensky lights candles with rabbis to mark third wartime Hanukkah
Jewish president tells visiting Chabad dignitaries that menorah used in office ceremony was given to him by Argentine leader Milei, promises light will overcome darkness amid war
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Rabbi Moshe Azman of Ukraine poses for a picture at the Knesset in Jerusalem on March 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 11, 2024, 11:43 pm
Son of prominent Ukrainian rabbi killed on frontlines of war with Russia
Anton (Moty) Samborsky, son of Kyiv rabbi Moshe Azman, listed as missing since July; MK Yuli Edelstein says his ‘heart breaks,’ says Israelis and Ukrainians have shared experience
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Kharkiv Rabbi Moshe Moskovitz conducts a burial service for Ali Shabay, who fell in battle near Kharkiv, April 23, 2023 (courtesy)
April 25, 2023, 3:38 am
Missing Ukrainian soldier given Jewish burial after months-long search for body
Remains of Ali Shabay, who was killed fighting Russian troops last May, identified by DNA last week; Kyiv appoints Jewish chaplain for military
By Lazar Berman
Workers bring boxes of matzah into Kharkiv's Choral Synagogue, March 30, 2023 (Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz)
April 3, 2023, 12:21 pm
Matzah factory survives a Russian strike as Ukraine Jews prepare Passover under fire
Dnipro bakery shaken by drone attack as it prepares tons of matzah for Seder; rabbis see rise in interest from unaffiliated Jews
By Lazar Berman
Ukrainian soldiers secure the bank of the Siverskyi Donets River near Zadonets'ke, July 29, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
February 26, 2023, 6:06 am
A year of war in Ukraine: A reflection
A Times of Israel reporter looks back on his visits to the war zone in the past year, and stories he encountered along the way
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Moshe Azman in Jerusalem, December 1, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
January 16, 2023, 3:06 am
Ukrainians love this audacious rabbi for his wartime aid and viral ‘chizuk’ videos
Rabbi Moshe Azman heads Kyiv’s Brodsky Synagogue, knows Volodymyr Zelensky, and is a former IDF chaplain. He’s made his community an aid hub for civilians, government institutions
By Lazar Berman
An undated photo shows Jewish Ukrainian soldier Vladislav Shain praying with tefillin (Courtesy Rabbi Moshe Azman)
December 8, 2022, 7:04 pm
Jewish Ukrainian soldier killed fighting Russian forces
Top rabbi announces last month’s death of Vladislav Shain, who wore a Star of David patch with ‘Ukraine’ written in Hebrew on his uniform
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Kyiv residents worship at the Brodsky Synagogue, August 2022. (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
October 13, 2022, 4:07 pm
Jews in Kyiv celebrate Sukkot by candlelight as missiles fall nearby
No members of the community injured, says rabbi; Israeli diplomats remain in Warsaw as attacks pick up again in Ukrainian capital
By Lazar Berman
Vlada (L) and Ludmilla speak to The Times of Israel in Kyiv, August 4, 2022 (Lazar Berman/The Times of Israel)
August 12, 2022, 2:17 pm
With loved ones in Russian camps, Ukrainian women fight to bring them home
Fiancées and mothers tell The Times of Israel they don’t know if Azovstal POWs are alive, and feel abandoned by Red Cross and government; ask Kyiv rabbi to petition Israel for help
By Lazar Berman
Moshe Reuven Azman, chief rabbi of Ukraine, waits for a guests before the Passover Seder at a synagogue in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 15, 2022. (AP Photo/ Evgeniy Maloletka)
April 18, 2022, 1:37 pm
Ukraine rabbi hopes for Passover miracle, says Israel can learn from Ukrainian unity
Chief Rabbi Azman says 3 communal Seders were held under fire in Kyiv, accuses Putin of genocide in Mariupol; Jewish community sent Seder kits and matzah to Zelensky and Kyiv mayor
By ToI Staff
A man enters a synagogue before Passover in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, April 15, 2022 (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
April 15, 2022, 10:18 pm
Yearning for freedom from Russia, Ukrainian Jews mark wartime Passover, if they can
Curfews, bombings and constant danger imperil seder gatherings for Jews remaining in conflict-torn country, even as invasion gives new meaning to ancient retelling of exodus story
By Cara Anna and OLEKSANDR STASHEVSKYI
Illustrative. Jewish Ukrainian refugees at an emergency shelter sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Joint Distribution Committee in Chisinau, Moldova, on March 5, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 13, 2022, 11:10 pm
Israel to significantly shorten entry process for would-be immigrants from Ukraine
As more and more people with Jewish ties seek to immigrate, Israel will begin to let nearly all of them into the country, but only award citizenship after further screening
By Judah Ari Gross
Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman is seen in a video statement, March 2, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter)
March 2, 2022, 8:00 pm
Holding Torah scroll, Kyiv rabbi curses Russians standing by amid Ukraine invasion
Contentious St. Petersburg-born Rabbi Azman accuses Russia of attacking indiscriminately, unlike Israel; another chief rabbi compares Putin to Hitler, calls to destroy tank convoy
By Judah Ari Gross
Jews from Ukraine arrive at a Jewish community center in Chisinau, Moldova, February 25, 2022. (Courtesy of Rabbi Pinchas Salzman/via JTA)
February 27, 2022, 2:24 pm
Ukrainian Jews, scarred by a bloody history, find themselves refugees once again
Jews from Odessa are heading to Moldova whose capital, Chisinau, was the site of a major pogrom that became a symbol of Jewish flight from Eastern Europe in the early 20th century
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Rabbi Moshe Azman, founder of the Anatevka community near Kiev, February 29, 2016. (R. Litevsky/Courtesy of the Office of Rabbi Moshe Azman)
January 7, 2021, 4:37 pm
One of Ukraine’s chief rabbis endorses siege of US Capitol by Trump supporters
Moshe Azman — whose claim to title of head rabbi is disputed — compares violent run on heart of US democracy to recent ‘Maidan’ uprising against pro-Russia government in Ukraine
By Sam Sokol and Cnaan Liphshiz
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