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MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ

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
Ukrainian soldiers learn about Rosh Hashanah in the field (left) while Аriel Chernetskiy blows the shofar in uniform, September 2024. (Courtesy: Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine via JTA)
October 3, 2024, 5:41 am
Shofars blown along Ukraine frontlines in Rosh Hashanah initiative for Jewish troops
Country’s largest Jewish communal body distributes the ritual instruments along with holiday kits for soldiers, ‘reinforcing their connection to their faith and heritage’ amid war
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
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
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sits with students from the Simcha School in Kyiv for a model Passover seder, April 18, 2024. (Courtesy FJCU via JTA)
April 19, 2024, 1:29 am
Ukraine’s Zelensky attends mock Passover seder at Kyiv Jewish school
Ukrainian leader tells students that Jewish holiday is ‘first of all about freedom,’ says Ukrainians and Israelis must ‘defeat evil’ while predicting ‘miracles’ in both countries
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Jeremy Gordin offers a toast in an undated family photo. (Courtesy/Gordin family via JTA)
May 2, 2023, 4:28 am
South African Jewish journalist Jeremy Gordin murdered in home burglary at 70
Prominent reporter killed in March robbery after decrying crime in Johannesburg; he studied in Jerusalem, headed local version of Playboy and a working-class tabloid during career
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
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
Members of the Masorti community in Kyiv during a Purim performance, March 6, 2023. (Marcel Gascón Barberá via JTA)
March 8, 2023, 3:28 am
Jews in Kyiv celebrate second wartime Purim with renewed resolve and optimism
Jewish Ukrainians mark festive holiday with commitment to community and in better spirits than last year
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
A bust of Mircea Vulcanescu in Bucharest Romania, seen in 2022. (screen capture: Google Street View)
January 4, 2023, 5:44 am
Bucharest city council rejects plan to remove bust of pro-Nazi minister
Elie Wiesel Center accuses officials in Romanian capital of breaking law by leaving monument to Mircea Vulcanescu, who served in government of Hitler ally Ion Antonescu
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Michael Shafir in a 2011 interview. (Screenshot: YouTube; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 24, 2022, 10:11 am
Michael Shafir, scholar who wrote ‘encyclopedia’ of Holocaust denial, dies at 78
Israeli-Romanian researcher, who played key role in Holocaust memory in the former Soviet country, is remembered for his straightforward, humorous presentation of difficult truths
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
A rabbi checks the quality of poultry meat in a kosher slaughterhouse in Csengele, Hungary on January 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
November 16, 2022, 3:13 am
Romania passes ‘landmark law’ guaranteeing right to kosher slaughter
Conference of European Rabbis hails legislation as a model for other European countries amid battle over ritual killing of animals on continent
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Iosefin Synagogue in Timisoara, Romania, as seen on a new website opening doors to historical synagogues in Romania's Banat region. (Sebastian Puraci/Asociația Pantograf/ via JTA)
November 8, 2022, 2:38 am
Romania’s ornate and sometimes crumbling synagogues get new access via virtual tours
Through the Stories of the Synagogues website, visitors can view the beautiful houses of worship that stand where few, if any, of their previous congregants remain
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Dana Lipschitz paints a Ukrainian child’s face during Purim celebrations in Neptun, Romania, March 16, 2022. (Marcel Gascon Barbara/ JTA)
March 18, 2022, 6:13 pm
In a Romanian resort town, Jewish children from Odesa celebrate Purim as refugees
800 people who escaped Ukraine with the help of Tikvah, an organization that helps orphaned and disadvantaged youth, are taking their holiday spirit on the road
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
Laiza Vedeneva at the JDC court with her grandmother. (Marcel Gascón Barberá/ JTA)
March 17, 2022, 11:42 pm
‘Jewish soup’ is keeping soldiers and refugees warm at the Romanian-Ukrainian border
A tent operated by the JDC serving bean-and-vegetable borscht is a welcome sight for those fleeing the war, and the aid from local and foreign volunteers doesn’t stop there
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
UN Special Rapporteur Calin Georgescu speaks in Majuro, Marshall Islands, March 30, 2012. (Giff Johnson/AFP via Getty Images via JTA)
February 4, 2022, 9:46 am
Romanian politician praises 1930s antisemitic fascist leader on primetime TV
Calin Georgescu says Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, head of an extremist nationalist group, ‘fought for the morality of the human being’
By MARCEL GASCÓN BARBERÁ
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