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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Ukrainian Jews

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
Sofia and Vladimir Popov (Courtesy).
April 5, 2024, 12:45 pm
Sonia and Vladimir Popov, 68 & 74: Came to Israel for their only child
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Sderot on October 7
By ToI Staff
Women ride a scooter through Kyiv's Maidan Square, past sandbags that spell out 'HELP,' and flags displayed from around the world, in Ukraine, June 25, 2022. (Nariman El-Mofty/AP)
February 26, 2024, 12:51 am
Two years in, Jewish fundraising for Ukraine war has slowed to a trickle
As Russian invasion enters third year, Jewish organizations are seeing donor fatigue as focus also turns to Israel
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Campers at Ramah Ukraine greet each other after returning to camp for the first session in the country during wartime. (Courtesy Midreshet Schechter via JTA)
August 12, 2023, 12:28 pm
Camp Ramah returns to Ukraine after a war-induced exile — now with a bomb shelter
After the Russian invasion forced it to move to Romania, the 31-year-old camp returns to its home in the Chernivtsi region where over 120 kids see a summer respite from the war
By Shira Li Bartov
People attend a ceremony to mark the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in Tel Aviv on February 24, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
August 4, 2023, 10:13 am
‘Wake up’: Ukraine urges Israel to aid Odesa’s Jews as Russia pounds city
Ukraine’s embassy in Israel says Jewish community significantly affected by strikes, one of which damaged Hillel office
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Hillel International's office after it was bombed by a Russian missile in Odesa, Ukraine, July 23, 2023. (Facebook video screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 27, 2023, 9:37 am
Hillel branch in Odesa ‘significantly damaged’ in Russian missile strike
No one in building at time of attack, which damaged office door, windows, brought down ceiling; Hillel chapter in Kharkiv was destroyed in shelling last year
By Andrew Lapin
Clockwise from top left: Leonid Bereslavich, Mark Sagan, Alexey Kulik, Nikita Novitsky, Ilya Miroshnichenko, Veniamin Rudman and Artur Dotsenko (Courtesy of Makkabi Ukraine via JTA)
July 7, 2023, 12:57 pm
7 Ukrainian teens to get a break from war at a US Jewish sports camp this summer
The campers will spend four weeks at Ramah Sports Academy in California as the Maccabi athletic organization seeks ways to help the bombarded Jewish community
By jacob gurvis
Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Courtesy Office of the President of Ukraine)
June 20, 2023, 6:09 pm
Zelensky chief of staff: Only Israel can provide what we need against Iranian drones
Andriy Yermak says Kyiv also still wants Israeli weapons to rebuff Russian invasion, ‘cannot understand’ how Netanyahu has yet to visit
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
Russian speakers perform havdala, a ceremony that marks the end of Shabbat, in Israel. (Shishi Shabbat Yisraeli)
May 25, 2023, 3:01 pm
Russian speakers relish a user-friendly Shavuot, and its pro-conversion message
An organization that helps build communities of newcomers from former Soviet countries has adapted the Jewish holiday’s all-night study tradition
By Canaan Lidor
Guests at a seder in Kyiv, Ukraine, including many families from heavily damaged Kharkiv, sit around the seder table on the first night of Passover, April 5, 2023. (Marcel Gascon Barbera/JTA)
April 6, 2023, 3:47 am
Passover takes on special resonance for Ukraine Jews as seders held amid new normal
Describing holiday as ‘a story of going through trauma,’ rabbi in Kyiv calls to ‘learn from the story… and connect it to today so we learn the lessons of hope and rehabilitation’
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
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