Editorial: Ukrainians flee their homeland
In late March, I had a chat with Jakub Łysiak, who’s the general tour manager with the Taube Jewish Heritage ...
Tag: Ukraine
Editorial: In solidarity with Ukraine
Like many American Jews, I’m here because Cossack militia men wanted to kill my grandparents. They fled to the United ...
A Latin American Jewish family saga
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Ellis Island tends to dominate thinking about Jews’ immigration to America. But there’s another America. Who ...
Looking for answers among the remains
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Persistent and resourceful Esther Safran Foer would have made a fine detective. I Want You to ...
In Ukraine, aid for needy Jews comes with a catch
By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ ODESSA, Ukraine (JTA) — Alina Feoktistova always knew she was Jewish, but the first time she sought ...
Rabbi helps dedicate a memorial to Ukrainian group that collaborated with the Nazis
By SAM SOKOL (JTA) — One side called it a fitting compromise. The other said it was a whitewash of Ukraine’s ...
Buczacz: The life and death of a Jewish town
Reviewed by NEAL GENDLER Little is needed to shatter the veneer of ethnic coexistence, as tragically illustrated in Buczacz, once ...
Make-believe Jewish weddings
In Eastern Europe, nostalgia for the Jews includes fake Jewish weddings By CNAAN LIPHSHIZ (JTA) — Nostalgia for Jews is ...
Coping with war in Ukraine
By MORDECAI SPECKTOR Although most Americans are unaware of the fact, there is a war raging in Ukraine. In early ...
From Minneapolis to Minsk
Natalie Shnaiderman, of the Jewish Agency for Israel, speaks about the organization’s work in Ukraine and the former Soviet Union ...
