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A Jewish couple is wed in a mass wedding ceremony in Kyiv, May 2026. (Courtesy of JCC Kiev)
May 11, 2026, 2:33 pm
Amid Ukraine ceasefire, Jewish couples wed in joint ceremony in Kyiv
A 92-year-old couple was among those married during the May 9-11 truce put in place in honor of Victory Day
By Zev Stub
A Russian drone strike on the Chabad Or Avner Jewish school in the city of Odesa, Ukraine, on April 30, 2026, caused significant damage. (Rabbi Moshe Azman/X)
May 1, 2026, 10:00 pm
Ukrainian Jewish school, orphanage struck in overnight Russian drone attack; no injuries
Jewish institutions sustained serious damage; Russia launches over 600 drones at Ukraine in under 24 hours
By Zev Stub, ToI Staff and Agencies
Jewish Ukrainians line up to receive aid distribution in Kyiv in the fall of 2025. (Theia Chatelle/ JTA)
February 24, 2026, 12:55 pm
After 4 years of war, Ukraine’s Jews face increasing sirens, shortages and uncertainty
On the grim anniversary of the Russian invasion, those in the Jewish community who haven’t fled meet in shelters to light Shabbat candles, while elderly rely on intermittent aid packages
By Theia Chatelle
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) speaks at the Babyn Yar ravine near Kyiv, the site of a Nazi massacre during the Holocaust, to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2026. (Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine)
January 27, 2026, 10:56 pm
Zelensky, flanked by Ukrainian rabbis, marks Holocaust Remembrance Day at Babyn Yar
Ukraine’s Jewish leader says rising antisemitism must be confronted, at site where Nazis and collaborators murdered 33,771 Jews over two days in 1941
By Lazar Berman
A Ukrainian medic helps local residents to leave the site of an airstrike in Kyiv on October 23, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Andrew Kravchenko/AFP)
October 24, 2025, 3:26 am
Synagogue in Ukraine hit by missile; rabbi reportedly left moments earlier to affix mezuzah
Chabad Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Wolff vows to ‘strengthen community and rebuild’ the Kherson shul after sanctuary ‘completely destroyed,’ cites ‘clear moment’ of divine supervision as no one hurt
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Residents walk near a damaged business center following a drone attack in Kyiv, on October 23, 2025, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Tetiana DZHAFAROVA / AFP)
October 23, 2025, 11:11 am
Major wave of Russian drone strikes in Ukraine damages synagogue, kills rescuer
‘Russian terror does not spare anyone, including religious communities,’ says Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry after Russia launched some 130 drones overnight
By AFP
A Russian drone strike on the Nachlas Eliezer Synagogue in the Peresyp district of Odesa, Ukraine, on August 4, 2025, caused significant damage to the building. (Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt/X)
August 8, 2025, 12:49 am
Historic Odesa synagogue sustains heavy damage from Russian drone strike
Flames engulf Nachlas Eliezer after suicide drone crashes into building, in latest Russian attack to hit a Jewish communal space in Ukraine; no injuries reported
By Grace Gilson
Illya Rechytskyy, in an undated photo. (Courtesy RCMP)
August 3, 2025, 10:37 am
Body of Israeli man swept down Canadian river found after month-long hunt
Illya Rechytskyy, 65, had last been seen in Cheakamus River, which he frequented while visiting daughter in British Columbia on trip extended by Iran war
By ToI Staff
Young Hasidic men walk in an 18th century Jewish cemetery in the small Ukrainian town of Berdychiv, July 30, 2018. (Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP)
May 28, 2025, 6:36 am
Once a center of Jewish life, Berdychiv’s tiny community struggles amid Ukraine war
As conflict grinds on and funds are redirected to Israel in the wake of Oct. 7, religious survival is difficult for the few left in a town that was 80% Jewish before the Holocaust
By Theia Chatelle
Rabbi Irena Gritsevskaya leads prayers from a new Ukrainian-language siddur. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter, TALI, Masorti Olami via JTA)
February 28, 2025, 5:40 am
On anniversary of Russia-Ukraine war, isolated Ukrainian Jews translate their prayers
Many in the Jewish community seek translations of sacred texts as a way of fighting for their national and religious identity. A new children’s prayer book marks the latest addition
By Shira Li Bartov
Vitali Logvinchenko (Courtesy)
November 7, 2024, 9:58 pm
Vitali Logvinchenko, 34: Fled Ukraine war, seeking safety in Israel
Murdered by Hamas terrorists near Kibbutz Re’im on October 7
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Jonathan Markovitch holds a fragment of a Russian drone that damaged the Chabad-run Perlina school in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 30, 2024. (Courtesy Kyiv Jewish Community via JTA)
October 31, 2024, 11:45 am
Kyiv Jewish school damaged in Russian drone strike
Chabad-run community says nobody was harmed at school, though 9 were hurt nearby, but direct hit caused extensive damage to classrooms, the school shuttle and the student lounge
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Rabbi Moshe Azman attends the funeral of his son, Anton Matityagi Samborsky, at Kyiv's Central Synagogue on September 12, 2024. (Oleksandr Magula/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC 'UA:PBC'/Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images via JTA)
September 14, 2024, 8:34 am
Funeral of Kyiv rabbi’s soldier son highlights Jewish community’s contribution to war
Jews, non-Jews alike pay last respects to Anton ‘Moty’ Samborsky, son of Moshe Azman, one of Ukraine’s self-declared chief rabbis; hundreds of Jewish soldiers said killed in war
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
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
Handmade matzah being made at a factory in Dnipro, Ukraine, June 10, 2024. (Marcel Gascón Barberá/ JTA)
September 3, 2024, 10:13 pm
Baking matzah and defying blackouts, Dnipro’s Jews press on despite Ukraine war
Less than 125 miles from the front line in the ongoing battle after Russia’s invasion, operations in the Jewish community continue, providing needed support in harrowing times
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
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