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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Vadim Rabinovich

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, and opposition leader Vadim Rabinovich, right. (AP/Seth Wenig/Efrem Lukatsky)
April 21, 2022, 9:19 am
Ukraine adds local Jewish leader to list of pro-Russian ‘traitors’
Billionaire Vadim Rabinovich entered politics in 2014 and was elected to parliament in 2019 as head of a small opposition party
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, left, and opposition leader Vadim Rabinovich, right. (AP/Seth Wenig/Efrem Lukatsky)
February 6, 2021, 9:14 pm
Jewish lawmaker advances impeachment against Ukraine’s Jewish president
Zelensky closes 3 television channels over ‘Russian funding’; opposition leader Rabinovich warns move leading to ‘personal dictatorship’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Actor Steven Seagal attends qualifying ahead of the Russian Formula One Grand Prix at Sochi Autodrom on October 11, 2014 in Sochi, Russia (Clive Mason/Getty Images via JTA)
May 12, 2017, 4:00 am
Steven Seagal, Putin ally, barred from Ukraine
Authorities say action star banned for 5 years because he is acting ‘contrary to the interests of ensuring the security of Ukraine’
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
Vadim Rabinovich is unfazed by critics and readily offers his own censure of European and American Jewish leaders. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
July 9, 2015, 6:04 am
European Jewish leader under fire for meeting Le Pen
Vadim Rabinovich defends decision; says he believes far-right leader’s condemnation of anti-Semitism is ‘sincere’
By JTA
Ukrainian soldiers ride armored vehicles to Debaltseve, eastern Ukraine, Donetsk region, on February 1, 2015. (AFP/Oleksander Stashevsky)
February 12, 2015, 5:29 pm
Ukraine Jews cautiously optimistic on Russian ceasefire
Chief rabbi ‘hopes for best’ following peace talks, but claims only border shutdown will pressure sides to achieve ‘lasting peace’
By JTA
Ukrainian presidential candidate Petro Poroshenko, left, and his wife Maria, right, cast their ballots at a polling station during the presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, May 25, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
May 25, 2014, 9:50 pm
Poll: Candy tycoon wins Ukraine presidential vote
Petro Poroshenko ran campaign promising to strengthen ties with EU, unify country; Jewish hopeful comes in distant third
By NATALIYA VASILYEVA and PETER LEONARD
Pro-Russian armed militants guard a checkpoint blocking the major highway which links Kharkiv, outside Slovyansk, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
May 24, 2014, 12:37 pm
Ukraine plans to elect least bad candidate
As crucial vote nears, activists warn presidential hopefuls: Don’t betray us
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Vadim Rabinovich is unfazed by critics and readily offers his own censure of European and American Jewish leaders. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
May 16, 2014, 2:03 pm
‘I am the Obama of Ukraine,’ says Jewish presidential hopeful
Polling dead last, colorful oligarch Vadim Rabinovich says his candidacy shows he lives in ‘a real European country’
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Vadim Rabinovich is unfazed by critics and readily offers his own censure of European and American Jewish leaders. (photo credit: Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
November 5, 2013, 7:28 pm
Ukraine’s Jewish Congress head: Builder or bulldozer?
Shrugging off critics and an assassination attempt, Vadim Rabinovich claims the mantle of Jewish leader
By Cnaan Liphshiz
March 4, 2013, 7:00 pm
Ukrainian Jewish leader Rabinovich survives blast
No suspects or clear motive in Kiev explosion, which targeted businessman’s car
September 10, 2012, 1:00 pm
Jews petition Montenegro for synagogue for tiny community
Earlier this year Prime Minister Igot Luksic, signed a statement recognizing Judaism as the country’s fourth official religion
Vadim Rabinovitch at the ceremony naming a square in his honor in April 2012. (photo credit: screen grab from YouTube)
May 31, 2012, 12:07 pm
Why was Old City square named after Ukrainian oligarch, 500 years before his time?
Bylaws reserve such honors for those who died before 1500; Vadim Rabinovitch paid for a $3 million gold menorah that sits in ‘his’ square
By Hillary Zaken
Vadim Rabinovich, L (photo credit: JTA)
February 15, 2012, 7:50 am
New European Jewish Union making waves
Critics call 12-member Jewish parliament a joke, saying they do not represent Europe’s Jews
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